State Supreme Court rules in favor of Job Corps killer's appeal

Tennessee's Supreme Court has ruled that convicted killer Krista Pike can continue to fight her death sentence.

Pike murdered Knoxville Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer in 1995, and receivedthe death penalty.

At one point, Pike told a judge she wanted to stop her post-conviction appeals process, meaning she could be executed.

Pike later changed her mind, but a judge said she couldn't.

Thursday, the State Supreme Court ruled that Pike was entitled to continue her legal fight, something that make's Colleen Slemmer's mother very angry.

"Pissed off, miserable. I'm so angry at Tennessee to give her her appeals back. They have no conscience, no feeling what it's like for a mother to go through not to have their daughter buried. That really bothers me," says May Martinez.

Part of Colleen's body is still being held in East Tennessee as evidence for Pike's appeals. Martinez is waiting to get Colleen's skull back to bury her ashes.

Martinez says she has no forgiveness for Krista Pike

"(I) just want to strangle the woman for this mess," says Martinez. "And, the fact that I have to deal with this every day and not know when this child is ever going in the ground to be buried in one piece."

Martinez plans to visit Pike in prison in the next few weeks and ask her daughter's killer to end her appeals.