Posted on 10/03/2025 6:43:17 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row.
Christa Pike received the death sentence at age 18 for the 1995 torture slaying of Colleen Slemmer, who was a fellow Knoxville Job Corps student. Slemmer, 18, was stabbed and beaten by Pike and Tadaryl Shipp, Pike’s boyfriend at the time, on the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural campus.
The court on Tuesday also set execution dates for Tony Carruthers, Gary Sutton and Anthony Hines.
Carruthers was convicted in 1996 of robbing and killing Marcellos Anderson, 21, Frederick Tucker, 17, and Anderson’s mother, Delois Anderson, 43, in 1994. Authorities said Marcellos Anderson was a drug dealer, and Carruthers was trying to take over the illegal drug trade in their Memphis neighborhood. Carruthers was forced to represent himself at trial after repeatedly complaining about court-appointed attorneys and threatening to harm several of them.
Hines was convicted of the fatal stabbing of Katherine Jean Jenkins, 54, a motel maid in Kingston Springs in 1985.
Sutton was sentenced to death for the 1992 shotgun slaying of Tommy Griffin, 24, after he had already been convicted of the murder of Griffin’s sister, Connie Branam, whose body was discovered in her burned vehicle.
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Tony Carruthers: https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/docs/Order%20setting%20execution%20%2816%29%20-%20Tony%20Carruthers.pdf
Gary Sutton: https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/docs/Order%20resetting%20execution%20%283%29-%20Gary%20Wayne%20Sutton.pdf
Anthony Hines: https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/docs/Order%20setting%20execution%20%2817%29%20-%20Anthony%20Darrell%20Dugard%20Hines.pdf
Christa Pike: https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/docs/Order%20setting%20execution%20%2814%29%20-%20Christa%20Gail%20Pike.pdf
Just kill em already
These crimes were committed over 30 years ago. One 40.
Pronto.
We need to reform the death penalty big time. If found guilty, the perpetrator shouldn’t be given a last meal, and should only be given one day to prepare for the execution.
What about Tadaryl Shipp?
SHOULD NEVER HAVE TAKEN THIS LONG
The war against the death penalty with the 3-drug cocktail has been the primary problem.
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