Christa Pike was 20 when she became the youngest woman on death row in the United States.

Christa Pike was 20 when she became the youngest woman on death row in the United States.

Now, 30 years later, he is about to be executed this week. The sentence will be carried out not by the electric chair, as originally planned, but by lethal injection.

However, his lawyers say he is also a victim of violence and abuse.