Imagine bracing for the last day of your life, knowing the state has set a time and a method, and then waking up days later still breathing. Welp, that is the reality Christa Pike is living with now. Her attorneys confirmed Saturday that she was discharged from a local hospital and returned to the Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, where she has lived for more than 30 years.
Christa Pike is conscious and speaking nearly a week after a botched execution left her critically injured and temporarily on a ventilator, her attorneys said Tuesday. “Her recovery is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery,” her attorneys said in a statement. Pike, 50, remains hospitalized after … Read more
Christa Gail Pike, 50, remains alive after two rounds of lethal injection. Earlier today, we shared that Pike — the woman convicted in the 1995 torture killing of Coleen Slemmer — would get a stay of execution. The decision arrived within one hour of her scheduled execution. This morning she was due to be executed … Read more
Christa Pike was supposed to die by lethal injection this morning, but she now has something she didn’t have when she woke up: more time. A federal appeals court stopped Tennessee’s execution about an hour before it was set to begin. Witnesses were already sitting at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville when the order came down around 9 a.m. Tennessee was about to make history, and then the clock stopped.