Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say

Scritto il 01/10/2026
da Emily Cochrane and Ann E. Marimow

Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.A federal court on Wednesday had ordered a pause on the execution of Christa Pike, convicted of the murder of a classmate in 1995, just hours before she was set to die by lethal injection in Nashville.