Christa Pike Speaks Out: A Survivor's Account of a Botched Execution and Its Lingering Pain

10/31/2026

Death row inmate Christa Pike has spoken in a statement after the botched execution that left her in serious pain.

10/31/2026

Pike said she went into the execution chamber prepared to die in peace and woke up alone and confused in a hospital bed, and now lives in constant pain.

10/31/2026

Christa Pike says she is in constant pain after surviving a botched execution in Tennessee, as her lawyers seek to commute her sentence.

10/31/2026

In her first remarks, Pike described the physical and psychological impact of the incident, saying she had not experienced a moment without pain since that night.

10/31/2026

Pike and her boyfriend tortured and stabbed a 19-year-old classmate, Colleen Slemmer, to death in 1995. Pike was 18 at the time, making her one of the youngest women sentenced to death. Slemmer's...

10/30/2026

Pike said she went into the execution chamber prepared to die in peace and woke up alone and confused in a hospital bed, and now lives in constant pain.

10/30/2026

It is Pike's first public statement since she survived an execution attempt by lethal injection in September.

10/30/2026

‘And the pain isn't just physical. There is pain in my mind and in my soul,’ Christa Pike said in her statement

10/30/2026

Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital as the State tried to execute her on September 30 for the 1995 stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer

10/30/2026

A death row inmate who survived two lethal injections last month has released a public statement after being sent back to prison.

10/30/2026

Christa Pike said on Friday that she remained in constant pain and struggled to speak a month after surviving a lethal injection in Tennessee, a failure she blamed on "incompetence." In her first...

10/30/2026

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike said she remains in constant pain after surviving a botched lethal injection in September, in her first public statement since the failed execution. She...

10/30/2026

Convicted killer Christa Pike described what her life is like after surviving two doses of a lethal injection drug in a failed Tennessee execution.