The botched execution of death row inmate Christa Pike led to chaotic scenes with a 911 call-handler believing an initial ...

Christa Pike was set to be executed on Sept. 30 after serving 30 years of her sentence for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer ...

Tennessee lawmakers are considering whether to replace lethal injection with other execution methods after the state's recent ...

On September 30, 2026, the state of Tennessee attempted to execute 50-year-old Christa Pike, the only woman on the state's ...

As an opponent of capital punishment, I find the unintended gruesomeness of the botched execution of Christa Pike deeply disturbing, to say nothing of the cruelty that capital punishment brings when ...

Medicine cannot be on both sides of that gurney, and the profession must enforce the prohibition it already has, writes Joel ...

More than a dozen states and the federal government use pentobarbital to execute inmates. So why was Tennessee's execution of ...

Christa Pike is the first person to ever survive an execution by lethal injection, and there is no set process for where ...

Christa Pike has returned to prison after surviving a botched execution in Tennessee. As she continues to receive medical ...

Sentenced for the 1995 torture-murder of Colleen Slemmer, Christa Pike, one of America's most infamous female death row ...

Christa Pike’s friend revealed the death row inmate said she ‘wasn’t afraid to die but was afraid of the process’ before the ...