Christa Pike
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Christa Pike makes 1st public statement since failed executionPike, 50, said she has been in constant pain since she survived two doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30 for the 1995 stabbing death of 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer.TrendingOct 30
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Why did Christa Pike’s attempted execution fail? What medical experts sayThe 5-gram dose of pentobarbital used in lethal injection executions is many more times the amount than what should put someone in a medical coma.TrendingOct 7
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Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after failed execution, lawyers sayThe 50-year-old's prognosis remains unclear and she faces a lengthy recovery, her lawyers said, noting that her arms were burned and blistered from the execution attemptTrendingOct 7
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Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator after failed execution, court hearsHospital staff, were working to save Pike's life and clear the two doses of pentobarbital, which Tennessee uses in its executions, from her system.TrendingOct 2
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Christa Pike is alive and receiving ‘life saving medical care,’ lawyers sayPike, 50, was alive and making audible snoring sounds after receiving the drugs and was taken by ambulance from the prison, her lawyers said.TrendingOct 1
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