TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Mar 11, 2016

U.S. District Judge Sandy Mattice today upheld the conviction and death sentence of Christa Pike, who was convicted of the 1995 torture murder of a fellow Job Corps worker in Knoxville. Pike was 20 when she was sentenced to death, making her the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States since the U.S. Supreme Court's Furman ruling in 1972. Mattice said he did not see “valid grounds” for the appeal to proceed, the Chattanoogan reports. Pike was also convicted in 2004 for nearly strangling a fellow inmate with a shoestring.