Christa Pike Botched Execution Recovery
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- Ella MorrisonNew York Post
- Melissa KoenigDaily Mail
- Ed Pilkington in New YorkThe Guardian
- Kim ChandlerToronto Star
- Rebecca BooneToronto Star
- Associated PressSouth China Morning Post
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Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike’s arms before her attempted execution and warned that some of her veins may have ruptured, or “blown,” before she was injected with pentobarbital, her attorney wrote in a court document filed Thursday.
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Pike, 50, was hospitalized after surviving two doses of pentobarbital as the state tried to execute her on Sept. 30 for the 1995 stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer.
The IV team went through about 10 needles and tried several IV sites on both arms, attorney Randy Spivey wrote in the document.
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- 22 Oct
Christa Pike, 50, was hospitalized after surviving two doses of pentobarbital as the state tried to execute her for the 1995 stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer
- 23 Oct
The execution team began trying to place the two IVs required by Tennessee's execution protocols at 6:34 p.m., Spivey wrote, and when they struggled Pike helped, advising them to look in her upper arm for a viable vein.
Coverage 6 articles
23 Oct ‘Either blood or blown’: graphic account of botched US execution
South China Morning Post- 23 Oct Execution staff warned of possibility some of Christa Pike's veins had 'blown': attorney
CBC 
22 Oct Execution staff warned IV site might have 'blown' during Christa Pike's execution attempt
Toronto Star- 22 Oct Christa Pike’s IV team warned vein might be ‘blowing’ before failed execution
The Guardian 
22 Oct Death row inmate Christa Pike now speaking in full sentences and walking on her own after botched execution for brutal murder of classmate in 1995
Daily Mail
22 Oct Christa Pike talking in full sentences as she continues to recover from botched execution
New York Post
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