The Execution That Will Make History: After Three Decades on Death Row, Tennessee Prepares to Execute Its First Woman in Two Centuries

pull that refuses to fade. The murder of Colleen Slemmer is one such case. It was 1995, and the setting was the Knoxville Job Corps program, a place meant to foster growth and opportunity. Instead, it became the site of a sadistic, calculated act of violence that shattered a community and gripped the national consciousness. Prosecutors described a continue reading …