Christa and her attorneys grapple with a recent announcement by the Tennessee Supreme Court.

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Beth and Sarah talk to Colleen’s mother about whether justice is even possible in this case.

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Defending “the worst of the worst” can take a sizable emotional toll–but it also reinforces a sense of shared humanity.

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As the decades-long effort to overturn her death sentence runs out of time, Christa and her legal team try to prove that she’s a changed person.

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Christa looks back on her early years on death row when she struggled with undiagnosed mental health issues and the role it played in the fight to save her life.

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We learn what the jury and public didn’t know about Christa, her attorneys, and their trial strategy.

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As details of the murder leak, the Knoxville community is shocked by what 18-year-old Christa allegedly did to Colleen.

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Months after two teens enroll at Knoxville’s JobCorps program, one is dead and the other is charged with murdering her.

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In January 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee–and 30 years later, she’s still on death row. Proof of Life explores the meaning of justice and rehabilitation, and asks how we determine whether someone deserves to live or die.

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What does it mean to be a victim, or a villain? What happens when the line between the two starts to blur? On 7th July 2010, Kelly Harnett says her abusive boyfriend murdered a man right in front of her.  So how did she end up in prison for it? Anna Sinfield - the journalist behind the global number 1 podcast, The Girlfriends, returns with her toughest story yet. This series isn’t a whodunnit. It’s not even really about what happened. It’s about how a woman who was a victim of domestic violence became a villain in the eyes of the law. Found guilty of murder and locked up for over a decade; Kelly Harnett taught herself the law. And as she battled to overturn her conviction, she became a beacon of hope, fighting for the freedom of the abused women locked up alongside her.

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