Christa Gail Pike

Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, is facing a rare execution, with NBC News reporting she has said 'I am at peace' ahead of the sentence being carried out. Pike was convicted of a 1995 murder committed when she was a teenager, and her case has drawn attention as executions of women are exceedingly uncommon in the United States.

Christa Gail Pike, convicted of the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville, Tennessee, is facing execution, renewing attention to a case that made her the youngest woman in the state sentenced to death. The development has drawn widespread coverage and debate over the penalty decades after the crime.