The New Yorker · 3 Oct 2026
Christa Pike and the Absurdity of Humane Execution
Christa Pike was eighteen years old when she murdered her classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in 1995. A year later, she became the youngest woman to receive a death sentence in the modern era. This past Wednesday, at 8:17 A.M., an hour or so before the now fifty-year-old Pike was scheduled to be executed,
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