by Amy Goodman | Oct 2, 2026 | Capital Punishment, Christa Pike, Death Penalty, death sentence, Execution, Interview, Lethal Injection, Tennessee
Tennessee’s Governor Bill Lee has halted executions for the remainder of the year after a death row prisoner survived two lethal injections on Wednesday. According to her lawyers, Christa Pike was still breathing after she was strapped to a gurney and injected with two syringes of pentobarbital in a botched execution that spanned more than two hours. Prior to the scheduled execution…
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by Renée Feltz | Sep 23, 2026 | Bill Lee, Capital Punishment, clemency, Death Penalty, Death Row, Execution, Executions, Gov. Bill Lee, News, Prisons, Rape, sex trafficking, Sexual Assault, Sexual Violence, Solitary Confinement, Tennessee, Torture, Trauma
Christa Pike was sexually abused and raped from the time when she was a toddler until almost a year to the day before she was arrested in 1995 at age 18 for murdering fellow teenager Colleen Slemmer when the two attended a job training program for troubled youth in Knoxville. Tennessee officials do not dispute these facts. “I think everybody in this courtroom wishes that those things had…
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