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Christa Pike taken to hospital after Tennessee fails to carry out execution
Her lawyers said she remained conscious and had a heartbeat after receiving two syringes of lethal drugs, as they sought an emergency stay.
- Christa Pike’s scheduled execution in Tennessee was halted at the last minute on September 30 after the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay to give the court more time to review her legal claims.
- Pike’s attorneys argued that her history of severe childhood sexual abuse and rape was not adequately presented or considered when she was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, whom Pike killed at age 18.
- Tennessee appealed the stay to the U.S. Supreme Court, which later vacated the Sixth Circuit’s order and authorized the state to proceed with the execution, with Justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson dissenting.
- Despite the Supreme Court’s decision, Tennessee officials were ultimately unable to complete the lethal injection after administering two doses of pentobarbital, according to witnesses cited by The Associated Press.
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Christa Pike still alive, ‘snoring’ after 2 lethal injections as chaos envelops Tennessee execution: lawyer
Christa Pike, 50, was strapped to a gurney in the Nashville death chamber just before 7:30 p.m. CDT after the US Supreme Court overruled her stay of execution an hour earlier, The Tennessean reported.
·New York, United States
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BREAKING: Christa Pike SURVIVES Two Lethal Injections, Witness Press Conference Interrupted by Ambulances * The Gateway Pundit * by Cassandra MacDonald
Attorneys for Christa Pike said Wednesday night that Tennessee executioners administered two syringes of pentobarbital and that she was still alive and snoring…
·St. Louis, United States
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Doctor involved in Tony Carruthers’ botched execution administered Christa Pike’s lethal injection — and she’s still alive
Ihnen confirmed the team is filing a motion to stay the execution, the latest in a back-and-forth over the “Jobs Corps Murder” convict’s execution.
·Nashville, United States
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Total News Sources47
Leaning Left19Leaning Right9Center12Last UpdatedBias Distribution47% Left
Bias Distribution
- 47% of the sources lean Left
47% Left
L 47%
C 30%
R 23%
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