00:00When she was 18, she violently murdered a fellow student, becoming one of the youngest women ever on death row.
00:06Tomorrow, she's scheduled to be executed.
00:08And as Stephen Fabian reports, she has one last request, to be put to death by an all-female execution
00:15team.
00:16After 30 years on death row, her date with the executioner is just hours away.
00:2150-year-old Krista Pike is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Wednesday.
00:26And she has requested an all-female execution team.
00:30She would be the first woman put to death in the state of Tennessee in more than 200 years.
00:36Pike was convicted in 1996 for slicing a 19-year-old classmate with a box cutter
00:41before bashing in her skull in a fit of jealous rage over her boyfriend.
00:46Her confession to police is chilling.
00:49I just kept the hit door and hit door and hit door.
00:51She even kept a piece of the victim's skull as a macabre souvenir.
00:56Her time behind bars has been filled with drama.
00:59Apparently, some men found her irresistible.
01:02One guy was even accused of trying to break her out of prison.
01:06She was interviewed in 2006.
01:08I knew from the beginning, well, from the beginning of my trial, that I would get the death penalty.
01:14I did something horrible that is unacceptable, and I realized that.
01:19But I don't deserve to die.
01:21Randy York was a detective who investigated the slaying of Colleen Slemmer.
01:25Why do you think she's requesting an all-female execution squad?
01:30Well, my personal opinion, I think she's all about show.
01:33I think she's playing the system.
01:34The mother of Pike's 19-year-old victim is traveling from her home in Florida to Tennessee
01:39to be there for the execution.
01:42for the law of Türkiye.
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