What next for Christa Pike as death row inmate WAKES UP after two lethal injections

Podcast: The Fourcast · Channel 4 News

Opublikowano: 2026-10-07

The unprecedented survival of Christa Pike following a botched lethal injection in Tennessee has plunged the American capital punishment system into a deep legal and constitutional crisis. Sentenced to death at age 18 for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, Pike was scheduled to become the first woman executed by the state in over two centuries. However, after two lethal doses of pentobarbital failed to kill her, she survived and was rushed to intensive care. Pike is now reportedly conscious and speaking in hospital while handcuffed to her bed. In this episode of The Fourcast...