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By Rodrigo Santos Andrade
Live: Tennessee hearing on the botched Christa Pike execution
visibility comment0 event October 7, 2026 timer 13:01
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is conscious and talking in the hospital following her botched execution, her attorneys announced on Oct. 6.
"Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care," her attorneys said in a statement. "Her recovery is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery."
Tennessee was supposed to execute Pike, 50, by lethal injection on Sept. 30 for the brutal and prolonged 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. The execution failed after Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital injections and was taken to a Nashville-area hospital.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/10/06/tennessee-execution-christa-pike-second-attempt-botch/92127144007/
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