‘Critically ill but not in a coma.’
The lawyers for a Tennessee woman who survived an execution attempt told reporters on Thursday that she was still alive and receiving care in critical condition. Christa Pike, 50, was convicted on first-degree murder and conspiracy charges and sentenced to death in 1996, when she was 20. She was convicted and sentenced for murdering her…
A woman convicted of murdering a schoolmate 30 years ago has been taken to hospital after surviving two rounds of lethal injections in Tennessee. Christa Pike would have been the first woman to be executed in the state in 200 years. Pike, 50, has spent three decades on death row after she was convicted of the murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995.…
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is in hospital after efforts to execute her by two lethal injections failed on Wednesday night.
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike survived two rounds of lethal injection Wednesday in an apparent botched execution and was rushed to a hospital as her attorneys filed emergency litigation to stop the state from trying again. “This execution is causing Ms. Pike unnecessary agony and occurring in violation of her right to be executed ...
