Violence against women in Tennessee

Robert Eugene Brashers was an American serial killer who committed at least eight murders in Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas between 1990 and 1998. During his lifetime, Brashers was convicted of attempted murder for shooting a woman in 1985, as well as for various other offenses stemming from a 1992 case in which he stole a vehicle, but was not identified as a suspect in any of his murders and remained in relative obscurity. He died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1999 to avoid arrest for an unrelated crime after a standoff with police.

Christa Gail Pike is an American convicted murderer, and one of the youngest women to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period. At 18 years old, Pike tortured her classmate Colleen Slemmer to death. She was convicted at age 20. Pike is set to be executed on September 30, 2026.