How Did Christa Pike Become the Youngest Woman Sentenced to Death?
3 min readJan 5, 2020
Christa Gail Pike was born on March 10, 1976. Twenty years later, her name would make headlines. Headlines like “Christa Gail Pike: Killed for Love and Satan.” She would become the youngest woman sentenced to death in the United States following the Furman period temporarily ending the death sentence.