Pike survives execution attempt

Christa Pike, fifty, survived Tennessee's lethal injection execution on September thirtieth. She received two doses of pentobarbital while being executed for the nineteen ninety-five beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer.

First to survive lethal injection

The Death Penalty Information Center says Pike is the first person to survive after receiving lethal injection drugs during an execution.

IV line problem suspected

Medical and lethal injection experts focused on whether a problem with the IV line caused the drug to pool in her tissue instead of entering her bloodstream.

“apparently at no point did any member of the execution team realize that the IV lines were not correctly placed.”

Pike discharged, review ordered

Pike has been discharged from hospital and returned to Debra K.Johnson Rehabilitation Center, the women's prison where she was housed for thirty years.