Eerie song Christa Pike was heard singing inside execution chamber before surviving two lethal injections

Strapped to a gurney inside Tennessee’s execution chamber, Christa Pike appeared remarkably calm in the minutes before officials attempted to put her to death.

Witnesses watching through the glass at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on September 30 saw the 50-year-old lying beneath a sheet with an intravenous line attached to her arm.

Before the lethal drugs began taking effect, however, another sound could reportedly be heard from inside the chamber.

Pike was singing alongside her spiritual adviser.

At that point, she believed she was living through the final minutes of her life.

Instead, the execution would end very differently.

Hours later, Pike was still alive and was taken from the prison to a hospital after Tennessee officials administered two doses of pentobarbital without successfully carrying out the death sentence. Her lawyers later said she required emergency medical treatment.

More than three decades earlier, Pike had been convicted in connection with the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

Pike, her then-boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp, and Shadolla Peterson knew Slemmer through the Knoxville Job Corps.

According to court records, Slemmer was taken to an isolated area near the University of Tennessee agricultural campus in Knoxville, where she was attacked and killed.

Pike was 18 at the time.

She was later convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy and sentenced to death, becoming the youngest woman sent to Tennessee’s death row.

Shipp, who was 17 when the killing occurred and therefore was not eligible for the death penalty, received a life sentence. Peterson cooperated with prosecutors and received probation.

Roughly 31 years later, Tennessee prepared to carry out Pike’s sentence.

Her execution had originally been expected earlier in the day, but extensive legal proceedings delayed the process until the evening.

After a federal appeals court temporarily intervened, the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately allowed Tennessee to proceed.

Media witnesses entered the viewing area before the curtain to the execution chamber finally opened at approximately 7:27 p.m.

Pike was lying on the gurney with an IV line running into her right arm.

She spoke with her spiritual adviser, Rev. Mikey Noechel, and delivered a final statement before the lethal-injection process began.

But within minutes, witnesses reportedly realized something was wrong.

Pike complained about what she was feeling in her arm.

According to accounts from journalists inside the witness area, she said:

“The vein in my arm feels like it’s about to bust.” Continue Reading ⬇️