What happens when a prisoner survives an execution?
That extraordinary legal question is now surrounding Christa Pike after Tennessee officials administered two rounds of lethal-injection drugs but failed to execute her.
Pike, 50, had spent roughly three decades on death row for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. On September 30, she was taken into the execution chamber at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville in what was expected to be Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in more than 200 years…. Continue Reading ⬇️