Christa Pike
Florida executes a prisoner who killed his cellmate in hopes of getting a death sentence
STARKE, Fla. | A Florida prisoner who said he killed his cellmate specifically to get on death row was executed Tuesday, nearly 18 years after the attack. James Robertson, 63, declined to offer any last words before receiving a three-drug injection and was pronounced dead about 10 minutes later. It was a stark contrast to […]
Christa Pike is discharged from a hospital after surviving execution attempt, her attorneys say
NASHVILLE, Tenn. | Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection, has been moved back to prison, her attorneys said Saturday. Pike, 50, was discharged from the hospital and is back at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, the women’s prison where she was housed for 30 years, her attorneys said […]
Christa Pike is walking with help and eating after failed execution attempt, her attorneys say
NASHVILLE, Tenn. | Christa Pike has begun walking and eating again at a hospital a week after surviving Tennessee’s attempt to execute her with lethal drugs, her attorneys said Thursday. Pike, 50, survived two doses of pentobarbital as the state sought to giver her a lethal injection eight days ago for the 1995 beating and […]
Christa Pike is angry and confused after surviving execution attempt, attorney says
NASHVILLE, Tenn. | Christa Pike was “angry and confused” in the hours after regaining consciousness following Tennessee’s failed execution attempt, first asking, “Where am I?” her lawyer said Wednesday. Pike, believed to be the first person to survive after receiving lethal injection drugs during an execution, stunningly woke up as plans were being made to […]
Christa Pike on a ventilator and unconscious after failed Tennessee execution, attorneys say
Christa Pike was placed on a ventilator and remained unconscious in a hospital in the hours after her failed execution in Tennessee, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday. Hospital staff, her lawyers said, were working to save Pike’s life and as of late Thursday were trying to clear the two doses of the […]
Failed Tennessee execution renews the debate over death penalty methods
NASHVILLE, Tenn. | Tennessee officials haven’t explained yet what went wrong during the failed execution of Christa Pike, which was called off after she was given two doses of the drug meant to kill her. It wasn’t clear if Pike was still alive on Thursday. She could be heard snoring loudly in the execution chamber […]
Christa Pike is alive a day after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her, her lawyers say
NASHVILLE, Tenn. | Christa Pike remained alive and was receiving “lifesaving care” at a hospital, her lawyers said Thursday, a day after she survived a failed attempt to execute her for the 1995 murder during what Tennessee’s governor called a “deeply disturbing” incident. Pike is in critical condition at the hospital where she was taken […]