Christa Pike still alive on death row

Christa Pike still alive on death row Christa Pike has been on death row for 30 years and was meant to be put to death today, but is holding on to life. Her lawyers say two lethal injection attempts just put her to sleep instead of killing her. The 50-year-old was heard snoring in the execution room at the Nashville maximum security prison after being administered the drug pentobarbital. Emergency service teams were seen outside the prison with sirens blaring. American journalists were invited into the room and described it as going poorly, and the curtains had to be drawn at multiple points. It was very ragged. Catherine Sweeney WPLN journalist She lifted her head up and was looking around. at one point. She said that, she said that there was a spot that was burning and hurting and asked if that was normal. None of it was normal. Pike was one of the youngest women to ever be sentenced to death in the United States, just 18 years old when she was convicted of killing her classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995. Pike's lawyers have now filed Rex Quail Reporting an emergency petition to halt the execution.