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Back|Breaking: Death row inmate Christa Pike wakes after botched execution
Breaking: Death row inmate Christa Pike wakes after botched execution
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ABC Top Stories·3 hours ago·Crime·1 min read·🇦🇺Australia

Breaking: Death row inmate Christa Pike wakes after botched execution

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  • Christa Pike, 50, woke up and began speaking nearly a week after a botched lethal injection execution attempt at Tennessee's Riverbend Maximum Security Institution.
  • She had been sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1995 killing of her 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer when Pike was 18.

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Christa Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995 when Pike was 18 years old.

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Death row inmate Christa Pike has woken up and is speaking almost a week after a botched execution attempt at a Tennessee prison.

Pike, 50, was rushed to hospital following two doses of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital, inside the death chamber at Nashville's Riverbend Maximum Security Institution.

She was sentenced to death in 1996 for the killing of classmate Colleen Slemmer, 19, when Pike was 18 years old.

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  • Legal challenges will be filed regarding the constitutionality of Tennessee's lethal injection protocol

    Likely · Within weeks

  • Tennessee Department of Corrections will review and possibly revise its execution procedures

    Very likely · Within days

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  • ?What caused the botched execution attempt?
  • ?Will there be another execution attempt?
  • ?What is Christa Pike's current medical condition?
  • ?Are there legal challenges pending regarding the execution method?

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  • Christa Pike, 50, woke up and began speaking nearly a week after a botched lethal injection execution attempt at Tennessee's Riverbend Maximum Security Institution.
  • She had been sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1995 killing of her 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer when Pike was 18.

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