# Pike discharged after botched execution

> Christa Pike has left hospital and returned to prison following a failed execution attempt in which she survived two doses of pentobarbital.
- Title: Pike discharged after botched execution · NPR | Shortify
- Summary: Christa Pike has left hospital and returned to prison following a failed execution attempt in which she survived two doses of pentobarbital. Christa Pike, on…
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- Source: NPR — https://npr.org/2026/10/10/nx-s1-5997504/christa-pike-hospital-prison-after-botched-execution
- Published: 2026-10-10T00:00:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: christa pike, tennessee, execution, death row, pentobarbital, colleen slemmer, news
## Pike back in prison after hospital
Christa Pike has been discharged from hospital and returned to the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Tennessee. Her attorneys said she is grateful to first responders and her medical team for their care.

> She is grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances.
## Pike survived two doses of sedative
Pike was hospitalized after a botched execution on September thirtieth, in which she received and survived two doses of the sedative pentobarbital.

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## Pike on death row for nineteen ninety five murder
Pike was eighteen when she and her boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp tortured and killed nineteen-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a fellow classmate in the Knoxville Job Corps in nineteen ninety five. Shipp received life in prison without parole.
## Key takeaway

Christa Pike, on death row for a 1995 murder, survived a botched execution in September and has now been discharged from hospital back to prison.