She Was Supposed to Die. Instead, Christa Pike Woke Up After a Failed Execution NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Christa Pike entered Tennessee’s execution chamber on September 30, 2026, expecting to die. After spending more than three decades on death row for a brutal murder committed when she was 18, she was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. Two doses of the execution drug pentobarbital were administered, but Pike remained alive in what experts have described as an unprecedented failure. Instead of being pronounced dead, Pike was taken to a hospital…
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