This is a tape recorded statement.

The person being interviewed is Krista Gail Pike.

This is in regards to the death of a Colleen slimmer.

She started going off on me when I hit her.

I just hit her and hit her and hit her and hit her.

On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee.

This was for Knoxville a very heavy thing. You also had this torture aspect, hints of Satanism, which was like, what the hell is that?

Since her conviction in 1996, Krista has been sitting on death row. And now, 30 years later,

the clock counting down Krista's life is starting to tick louder and louder.

The state has asked for an execution date for Krista.

If killed, Krista will be the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years.

Since Krista's conviction, questions about how young is too young to face execution,

about criminal responsibility and the underdeveloped teenage brain, have only grown.

Krista's life was just this locomotive of violence, instability, lack of connection.

A team of lawyers is desperately trying to save her life and rewrite the

story that condemned her. I think what we see now is the person that could have been 30 years ago

had she received the right supports. But not everyone believes that Krista deserves mercy.

I don't think she's changed at all.

I really don't.

I think she's the same person as always.

We let people languish in prison for decades,

raising questions about who we consider fundamentally unrestorable.

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