Tennessee Halts Executions After Christa Pike Survives Two Lethal-Injection Doses

Tennessee death-row inmate Christa Gail Pike reportedly survived two doses of pentobarbital during an execution attempt at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. She was taken from the prison by ambulance for medical treatment, while her condition was not immediately disclosed. Her lawyers filed emergency court applications during the procedure, arguing that continuing it would cause unnecessary suffering. The state correction department said it followed its approved protocol, which permits a second dose if an inmate remains alive after the first. Governor Bill Lee has halted Tennessee’s remaining executions for the year and ordered an independent review. Pike was sentenced to death over the 1995 killing of Colleen Slemmer and would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee since 1820.

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