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  1. Article · Oct 2, 2026 · Li Cohen

    Christa Pike wasn’t the only one who tortured and killed Colleen Slemmer. Here’s what happened to the other 2 who were involved. (opens the original)

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    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Christa Pike, now 50, has been in prison since she was 18 years old over the murder 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. She wasn’t the only one found guilty — but she is the only one who ended up on death row. According to the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Slemmer was a 19-year-old Job Corps participant when she was tortured and murdered behind the agriculture campus steam plant on January 12, 1995. Pike and two others — 17-year-old Tadaryl Shipp and 18-year-old Shadol

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Li Cohen

    Witnesses describe Christa Pike ‘snoring’ and ‘looking around’ during botched execution attempt (opens the original)

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    KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - Christa Pike remains alive after officials attempted to execute her by lethal injection, with witnesses describing “haunting” moments during the failed attempt. The state tried to execute her by lethal injection on Wednesday, but neither the initial nor backup dose of pentobarbital killed her. “Christa is alive right now. We don’t have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment,” Spivey said during a news conference. Witnesses say she

  3. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Li Cohen

    ‘I’m ready to go’: Timeline of Christa Pike’s failed execution and an inside look at what were supposed to be her last words (opens the original)

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    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - “I’m at peace, and I’m ready to go” — those were supposed to be some of the last words ever said by Christa Pike, the Tennessee woman sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and murder of Colleen Slemmer. She received two doses of what were supposed to be lethal injections of pentobarbital on Wednesday night. But instead, witnesses say the drugs left her alive and audibly snoring. The attempt, which resulted in her being taken by an ambulance to a nearby hospital in Nas

  4. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Li Cohen

    ‘Still alive and snoring’: Christa Pike’s attorneys file emergency motion to halt execution (opens the original)

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    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) – Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. Her attorneys have filed an emergency motion to halt her execution after they say Pike was “still alive and snoring” after receiving her lethal injection on Wednesday. “The vein in my arm feels like it’s about to bust,” one witness recalled her saying. According to the emergency motion, the Tennessee Department of Correc

  5. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Li Cohen

    Christa Pike live updates: What to know as she remains in ‘critical condition’ after failed execution and her ’grotesque’ 1995 torture, murder of classmate (opens the original)

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    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The failed execution of Christa Pike has raised numerous questions about Tennessee’s death sentence procedures and sparked global outcry. Follow for live updates and keep scrolling to read more about what happened during the execution attempt and Pike’s case. 2:05 p.m. CT: Pike’s attorneys confirmed early Thursday afternoon that she is hospitalized in critical condition after receiving two doses of pentobarbital — the maximum amount of the drug outlined in Tennessee’s e

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