India, Oct. 1 -- Christa Pike, Tadaryl Shipp and a third companion were involved in the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville, Tennessee. Pike was 18, her boyfriend Shipp was 17, and Slemmer was their classmate at a vocational training centre called Knoxville Job Corps. The case drew widespread attention because of the brutal nature of the killing and a pentagram carved into the victim's body.

Pike was the only person sentenced to death in the case. She was convicted of first-degree murder for her role in Slemmer's killing. Shipp, who was 17 at the time, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. The supplied reports do not identify the third companion by name or specify that person's sentence, so t...