Month: October 2026

Christa Pike survived an attempted lethal injection in Tennessee after officials used multiple needles. The state has paused executions and ordered a review.
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The family of a woman murdered by Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is speaking out after Pike survived the state’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection.

Pike, 50, received two doses of the lethal drug pentobarbital Wednesday night but remained alive. Witnesses said Pike continued breathing and could be heard snoring more than an hour after the execution process began. She was eventually taken by ambulance to a hospital, where her attorneys said Thursday she was in critical condition and receiving life-saving medical care.

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. Pike was 18 at the time of the killing.

Members of Slemmer’s family witnessed Wednesday’s attempted execution after waiting three decades for Pike’s sentence to be carried out.

Slemmer’s family said the failed execution has brought more frustration and uncertainty instead of the closure they had hoped for. Family members urged people discussing the failed execution to remember Slemmer and the crime that led to Pike’s death sentence.

The Tennessee Department of Correction said it followed every step of the state’s established execution protocol, but the protocol did not allow officials to take additional steps after the two doses failed to kill Pike.

Pike’s attorneys have sharply criticized the execution attempt, describing it as cruel and torturous and arguing that complications had been foreseeable.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced Thursday that he had ordered a comprehensive third-party review to determine what went wrong.
“Carrying out a lawfully imposed sentence is among the State’s most serious responsibilities, and the people of Tennessee expect it to be done in a manner that is not only legal and constitutional, but is effective,” Lee said.

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