The Josh Innes Show - Ladies Can Do Stuff Now (Death Row Edition)

Episode Date: October 3, 2025

A lady in Tennessee is on Death Row and is slated to be executed. If this happens, she will become the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in over 200 years. Her crime was especially heinous. Look, ladies can do stuff now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey everybody. It's Josh. It's Friday. Welcome to All Up, Ennis. How the hell are you at 429 in the morning? Ha? After a late night of football, I tell you, I feel like I get caught up on my sleep a little bit and I feel fresh. And then a Thursday night football game happens that goes to overtime and I'm not in bed until like midnight and I'm up at 350 and here I am. So I'm going to have to have a little nappy poo today. It's going to be a nappy poo day if I'm going to be able to go out and drink some beers and have a burger over at the cozy lounge tonight. So, uh, anyway, I was going to get into some football stuff right out of the shoot, okay? Because why not? I'm sure that USA today has a winners and losers from last night's game, and that's one of our favorite weekly segments we do. Uh, we got prop to you drop. But then I saw this headline, Tennessee is set to execute a woman for

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now all righty lest anyone think that uh that equality is not real and that ladies are anything less than men because they are not ladies are just as good as men and they can commit crimes that are just as bad to get executed but let's see what this lady did to get executed uh let's see the story goes The only woman on Tennessee's death row has been scheduled for execution. And more than 30 years after she brutally killed a teenage romantic rival and showed off a piece of the victim's skull to schoolmates. What? What? We got some fucking heathers, some fucking lifetime movie shit.

What are we doing here? She killed a teenage rival 30 years ago and showed a piece of the skull to her classmates. Are you kidding me? The Tennessee Supreme Court scheduled the execution of 49-year-old Krista Gale Pike on September 30th, 20206. Pike was just 18 years old when she and two others lured 19-year-old Colleen Slimmer to the woods in Knoxville on January 12, 1995, and carried out the attack that made national headlines for its brutality. When a groundskeeper found Slimmer's body the next day, the teen had been beaten, stabbed, bludgeon, and had a pentagram carved into her chest, court records say, what? Holy shit Teenage girls can do some evil shit

Some fucked up repugnant shit Whoa I guess my first question is how the hell are you still like how can someone be on death row for 30 years If it's death row like if you're on death row for 30 years It's not death row you're just in jail You're just in prison You are just in prison if you're on death row for 30 years Like death row has to be a situation where you're like

Well time's ticking kiddos you're about to get executed, you got like a week to live. Not 30 years later, you might get executed. If Pike's execution is carried out, she would become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years and just the 19th woman executed in modern U.S. history. That is a very, very small number, Robin Marr, the executive director of the Washington, D.C. base death penalty information center, a nonprofit that tracks the use of the death penalty in the U.S. without taking a position on it. Only 18 women have been executed since 1976.

It's extremely rare. Pike's execution date has been set amid a rise in executions in 2025 and an expansion of the execution methods used. So far this year, states have executed 34 inmates, a figure that hasn't been seen in a decade, and another nine are scheduled to be put to death. Whoa! So, I don't know why the death penalty

and how the death penalty is carried out fascinates, me the way it does. But it does. You mean to tell me that Tennessee hasn't seen a woman executed in 200 years and only 19 women have been executed in modern U.S. history. See, these are the kind of things that these women's lib people should be fighting for. Like all this, all the shit that we typically see from people fighting about when it comes to women's rights and stuff like that. Like abortions, right? Like ladies are constantly fighting for, you know, Planned Parenthood and abortions. And you see these liberal gals out there, like, I can't wait to go out and get an abortion

because I can, and I'm going to go out and do it, and I'm going to get pregnant just so I can get an abortion. And then I'm going to film it from my TikToks, and I'm going to film it from my Instagram. What we should be talking about is the absurdly low number of women who have been executed in this country in the modern era. Only 19 women have been executed. That's like the same number of people who've struck out 200 times in a major. League Baseball season. There have been 17 hitters all time that have struck out 200 times

in a season. We've only seen 19 women executed in modern U.S. history. We got up this number, guys. We got like ladies deserve better things. That's what we need to do is like send somebody out there with a microphone and just ask ladies, just see the dumb answers that these people would give. Ask ladies and men if they feel like more women need to be executed because it's unjust that all the men are allowed to be like why is it that men have the market cornered on executions in america why can't women women can do just as many bad things to get executed women deserve execution just like men god so this lady christa gale pike and colline slimmer were both students at the knoxville job corps a career training program when pike began dating a 17 year old boy in

the program and later came to fear that slimmer was trying to steal him, prosecutors told jurors at trial. Pike, a friend and the boyfriend, lured slimmer away from the job course center and into the woods before the attack, largely carried out by Pike over an hour-long period on January 12, 1995, according to records. Here's the thing. Like, I'm not saying this person deserved to die, obviously. This person did not deserve to die. Did not deserve to be bludgeoned and stabbed and have shit carved into her chest and have a piece of her skull taken out to show classmates.

Not at all. But what the fuck are you doing getting lured out into the woods? Like nothing good happens in the woods. Tell me the good shit that happens when people who don't belong in the woods go to the woods. Now, if you're going to like a bonfire or something with a big group of people, maybe that's a good thing that would happen in the woods. Or if you're like a hunter and you're out in a deer stand at like three in the morning, maybe that would be something that would be good that happens in the woods. outside of that you know the kind of shit that happens when you're out in the woods you get bludgeoned you get tied to a tree and they put honey on your your chest and they let the bears come and get you

uh jason machetes you uh the blair witch fucks you up good like these are the things that happen when you go out into the woods in my experience with the woods nothing good happens the last time i can recall being in the woods like you know that's not like a trail where i'm walking my dog You know what I'm saying? Not some design state park trail thing where my dog goes for a walk and like whatever. Well, I can tell you this, it's similar situation. Not quite, but kind of. When I was in Tennessee, we were walking Luther and we encountered a giant fucking turkey out in the woods.

You know what we did? We got the fuck out of there. What did I tell you? Nothing good happens in the woods. My friend Walt when we were in high school said he was out in the woods and he had to take a 10-200. He had to go poopy. So he starts taking a poopie. happens, like a six-foot-long snake is like slithering right around his beehole.

He had to take that motherfucker out. And I know it really happened because he had the snake skin on his wall to prove it. There are not, like, good things do not happen in the woods. So in this scenario, if some chick that you may perceive as some sort of rival tries to lure you out to the woods, like, that's probably not going to end well. Why would you ever go to the woods with, like, it's just not a good situation. Like, that's where the bad shit happens. First thing, you know, you know, you're out in the woods. Next thing, you know, goddamn leather face has you up on a meat hook.

You don't go to the woods. It's bad. Pike later bragged about killing Slimmer, telling another student at the center that she had cut the teenager's throat six times. I cut her six times with a box cutter, cut her back with a meat cleaver, carved a pentagram into her forehead and chest, and continued the violence, even though Slimmer begged for her to stop. Boy, this is an evil motherfucker. How did this person get to stay on death row for this long? How did this person have the opportunity to stay on death row for 30 years? This is some fucked up shit.

This person is evil. Pike said she had thrown a large piece of asphalt at the victim's head, believed to be a fatal blow, and kept a skull fragment, later showing it off to fellow students. Who does this shit? Like it's one thing to kill someone You're a pretty fucked up person if you're going to kill someone Like killing is no good We're against killing Killing is bad

But if you're going to kill someone And you have you know Ambitions of getting away with it I feel like going out to people at a you know A job corps and being like hey You all want to see a dead body And then showing them pieces of a skull from someone you killed And then explaining to them

Like who just brag You have to be a like again Sometimes people murder people And it's in the heat of passion and like when you watch unfaithful. And Richard Gere, you know, finds out that this French gentleman is, you know, banging his wife. And he's very upset and sad about it.

And he takes the snow globe, spoiler alert, and just fucking conks the French fellow over the head with the snow globe and ends up killing the guy. And then like, you know, that was a crime of passion. That was a passionate crime. It wasn't premeditated necessarily, but he was very upset. And he takes this dude out with a snow globe. in this scenario this person premeditated this did some really effed up shit and then decides hey I'm going to go show all my buddies all the shit I did like look I do not advocate killing people killing people is not a good thing however if you are going to kill someone and you intend to

get away with it don't go to a group of people and say hey I got a piece of someone's skull how did you get that well I'm glad you asked here's a blow by blow account of how I murdered this person who I thought was trying to steal my man's. That's probably not the angle. Pike was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Pike's boyfriend, Tadryl, Tadaril-R-Y-L, Tadaril-Ship was convicted of first-degree murder, sentenced to life in prison, and will become eligible for parole in November, according to inmate records.

Pike's friends, Shadala Peterson, who prosecutors say kept watch during the attack, testified against Pike and was sentenced to probation. Boy, talk about getting off light. You knew somebody was getting murdered and you were there to watch to make sure nobody can help this person who is getting murder. And they're like, all right, you got probation. Now, to Daryl over here, to Daryl might get out of jail. But our girl here, she is going to be executed, first lady to be executed in Tennessee in 200 years, and one of only like 19 old girls to get executed in the modern era of America.

what does crystal gale pike say about this crime in a letter she wrote to the tennesseean she said that she has changed drastically since she was a teenager yep now i'm almost fifty but i still bludgeon somebody to death think back to the worst mistake you made as a reckless teenager well mine happened to be huge unforgettable and ruined countless lives i was mentally ill eighteen-year-old kid it took me numerous years to even realize the gravity of what i've done even more to accept how many lives have affected i took the life of someone's child, sister, and friend. It sickens me to think that someone is loving and compassionate as myself had the ability to commit such a crime. Ma'am, I don't want to be that guy and state the obvious. But you can't be that loving, compassionate, and compassionate. I don't know that you can be that if you put together that level of a murder. Like, again, you could accidentally hit someone with a car and I'd be like, okay, you're

probably a loving and compassionate person. You made a mistake. When I think back to the worst mistake I made as a reckless teenager, mine wasn't murdering somebody, bludgeoning them, carving like shit into their chest, carrying pieces of their skull around to show people, slitting their throat six times, not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, six times. So maybe over 30 years you've, you know, changed. That also, like, that's why, like, if you're on death row, why the fuck are you on death row for three? 30 years. Now you've given this person the time to think that they've changed. You haven't changed. You're a murderer. And it wasn't by accident. And you were basically an adult. You were 18 years old. Pike spent 27 years in what her attorney says was effectively solitary confinement as the only woman on Tennessee's death row before she won the ability to interact with inmates during meals, classes, and religious services. Well, that's nice. Ah, well, she was also sexually abused as a child, it says here.

So, of course, that, you know, justifies sledding that person's throat six times and killing them and carrying their skull around and bragging about it. But look, all I can tell you is that this lady, like ladies can do stuff. I think that's, I'm not going to read any more of this story. I'm done with the story. However, what we learned from our conversation here today, our little talk. about this gal is that ladies can do stuff now. Ladies can murder other ladies and ladies can be on death row and ladies can get executed in the state of Tennessee for the

first time in 200 years. These are the people we should be, you know, singing about, you know, we should be like singing, sisters can do it for your sisters are doing it for themselves. Like we want to sit there and talk about how like the ladies of the WMBA are like a symbol of progress. Oh no, friends. Real progress is being made. when ladies can get executed. And you know what? We're starting to see it. I think, look, I think the pendulum is starting to swing.

You know, first a lady gets executed. Next, we're going to get that lady president. You just wait.