# Failed Executions Before Christa Pike

> Seven inmates survived botched executions in recent decades, including Christa Pike.
- Title: Failed Executions Before Christa Pike · Seattletimes
- Summary: Seven inmates survived botched executions in recent decades, including Christa Pike. Seven U.S. inmates survived failed lethal injections, with Christa Pike…
- Keywords: christa pike, tennessee, lethal injection, death penalty, executions, pentobarbital, death row, torturing, colleen slimmer, ohio, alabama, doyle lee hamm
- Source: Seattletimes — https://seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/christa-pike-survived-a-botched-execution-so-did-7-other-inmates-in-recent-decades
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- Topics: christa pike, tennessee, lethal injection, death penalty, executions, pentobarbital, death row, torturing, colleen slimmer, ohio, alabama, doyle lee hamm
## Christa Pike's failed execution
Christa Pike, 50, regained consciousness after Tennessee administered two doses of pentobarbital.
## Tennessee review ordered
Outgoing Republican Gov. Bill Lee ordered a review into the failed execution after Pike regained consciousness.
## Pike's crime history
Pike was sentenced to die for torturing and killing 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995.
## Eight inmates survived
Pike is one of at least eight U.S. inmates who survived failed executions due to lethal injection problems.
## Ohio's failed execution
Ohio halted Romell Broom's execution in 2009 after technicians couldn't find a vein, leading to 18 needle sticks.
## Alabama's failed executions
Alabama failed to execute Doyle Lee Hamm and Alan Eugene Miller due to vein issues, with Miller later executed using nitrogen gas.
## Idaho's failed execution
Idaho halted Thomas Eugene Creech's execution after medical teams repeatedly failed to find a vein for lethal injection.
## Pike's second failed attempt
Tennessee officials called off Tony Carruthers' execution in May after failed IV line attempts, leaving him alive on death row.
## Key takeaway

Seven U.S. inmates survived failed lethal injections, with Christa Pike being the only one who received drugs before the process halted.