US Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Survives Execution Attempt After 2 Lethal Injections
Nashville, October 1, 2026: A planned execution in Tennessee ended in extraordinary circumstances after death row inmate Christa Gail Pike survived two doses of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital and was taken to hospital for emergency medical treatment. Pike, 50, was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. She would have been the first woman…
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