🔴 BREAKING: Christa Pike AWAKE & TALKING After Failed Execution!
Christa Pike is awake and talking after Tennessee’s failed execution attempt, her attorneys say, nearly a week after she was hospitalized.
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Her legal team now says Pike is conscious and speaking in a Nashville, Tennessee, hospital and remains shackled to her bed while receiving care. State officials have not confirmed her condition.
The update follows attorney Stephen Ferrell’s Sunday statement that Pike remained critically ill on a ventilator and that he was unaware of her regaining consciousness or speaking. The new statement does not establish exactly when her condition changed.
Pike survived the September 30 lethal injection attempt at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution after receiving two doses of pentobarbital. Her lawyers allege the drug entered surrounding tissue instead of her veins. Tennessee officials said they followed the execution protocol.
Gov. Bill Lee paused the remaining 2026 executions and ordered an independent review. A hearing concerning her attorneys’ evidence-preservation request is scheduled for October 7.
Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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