The cameras cannot see her face yet, but her tiny shoulders, hitching violently upwards, tell the story.
Then the audible sobs fill the room.
Inside the Knox County Criminal Court that day, on March 30, 1996, 20-year-old Christa Pike is becoming the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the modern era.
When she turns around, her face sprinkled with adolescent acne, the tears are freely flowing.
“It is ordered that you shall be put to death by electrocution … on the 12th day of January, 1997, your body shall be subjected to shock by sufficient current of electricity. May God have mercy upon you,” Judge Mary Beth Leibowitz said.
Panicked now…
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