Tennessee’s Attempt To Execute Christa Pike Using Lethal Injection Fails Twice [VIDEO]

Christa Pike was slated to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in the last 200 years when the Supreme Court ruled earlier Wednesday that her execution could proceed.   In a bizarre set of events Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike however after she survived two separate doses of lethal injection drugs, Pike was transported to an area hospital.  Now an emergency motion has filed by her attorneys with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee to halt the execution.

According to media witnesses, authorities appeared to give Pike two doses of pentobarbital, and she was still awake and snoring more than 40 minutes after the last dose, The Associated Press reported. At 8:53 p.m. local time, there was an announcement to escort media witnesses out of the area.

 “has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat and is audibly snoring.”

50 year old Christa Pike, who had refused her last meal before execution, has been incarcerated since 1995 for the murder that year of her former classmate, Colleen Slemmer. According to court records, Pike and Slemmer were students at the Job Corps Center in Knoxville when Pike, then 18, tortured and killed her, allegedly over comments Slemmer, 19, had made about her relationship.  Years after being sentenced to death for first-degree murder, Pike was convicted of attempted first-degree murder after strangling another inmate.

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