{"id":2814,"date":"2026-10-07T20:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2026-10-07T20:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:46:48","slug":"new-update-in-christa-pike-case-as-what-the-botched-execution-did-to-her-body-comes-to-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/?p=2814","title":{"rendered":"new update in Christa Pike case as what the botched execution did to her body comes to light"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">Two doses, and she was still alive. According to the supplied account, Christa Pike\u2019s attempted execution ended in hospitalization, Tennessee\u2019s prison chief resigned, and executions were halted as investigators confronted questions about ignored medical warnings and a drug that may never have reached her bloodstream. Now, a legal fight over evidence could expose the most disturbing and consequential answ\u2026 Continues\u2026<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The supplied report describes Tennessee confronting another execution crisis after Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital on September 30. Governor Bill Lee reportedly suspended executions through year\u2019s end pending an independent review, then announced Correction Commissioner Frank Strada\u2019s resignation on October 3. Pike was convicted of killing 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a fellow Job Corps student, more than three decades ago. Her execution would have been Tennessee\u2019s first involving a woman in over 200 years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>Pike\u2019s lawyers had argued that her blood disorder and small veins created serious risks. Their emergency filing alleges that repeated IV attempts left her arms swollen, burned and blistered, with the drug potentially entering surrounding tissue rather than her bloodstream. Those allegations remain distinct from any independent findings. Following another abandoned execution attempt described in May, the review and a court request to preserve evidence now become central to establishing what happened\u2014and who bears responsibility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two doses, and she was still alive. According to the supplied account, Christa Pike\u2019s attempted execution ended in hospitalization, Tennessee\u2019s prison chief resigned, and executions were&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}