Christa Pike survives lethal injection execution attempt

Summarised from 2 outlets · 3 reports · Updated 11 Oct, 23:13 · Archive

Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995, survived two doses of lethal injection on 30 September in Tennessee.

Christa Pike, 50, survived two lethal injections of pentobarbital on 30 September at a Tennessee prison. She was rushed to hospital, where she regained the ability to walk and speak, before being transferred back to the women's prison where she has been held for 30 years, according to her legal team.

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of her 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville. She committed the crime with her then boyfriend, who was not sentenced to death because he was not legally an adult at the time and remains in prison.

According to reports, a former schoolmate of Pike's, Marcy Wilson, spoke to her four days before the scheduled execution. Wilson said Pike told her she was "ready to go" and at peace with death, and asked if Wilson wanted some of her ashes and a lock of her hair. Pike was due to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years.

How it is being reported

• Christa Pike has only the left to blame for her execution ‘trauma’Botched executions only happen because of leftists' long legal crusade to intentionally throw sand in the gears of the death penalty.New York Post · 11 Oct, 22:59
• Christa Pike 'angry' over botched execution and was 'ready to die'A close friend of death row inmate Christa Pike, who survived a botched execution attempt, revealed the conversation they days before the murderer was due to dieThe Mirror · 11 Oct, 15:40
• Christa Pike's classmate claims killer 'bragged about eating victim's brain for breakfast'Christa Pike, who has survived a lethal injection execution attempt in Tennessee, was convicted of murdering her 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995The Mirror · 11 Oct, 12:37

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