After death row inmate Christa Pike survived two injections of lethal drugs this week in a gruesome failed execution by the state of Tennessee, the subject of death penalty executions has risen to the ...

Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike this week has resulted in fresh scrutiny of the shaky and secretive supply chain for lethal injection drugs. Pharmaceutical companies no longer provide ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Christa Gail Pike survived two lethal injections on Wednesday as Tennessee prison officials failed to put her to death for a 1995 murder. Gov. Bill Lee intervened, stopping ...

Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, received two doses of a lethal drug in a Nashville execution chamber Wednesday night. But she didn't die. Although her survival was "unparalleled ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The failed execution of Christa Pike has revealed gaps in Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol that left corrections staff and witnesses at a loss Wednesday evening. A copy ...

Pike’s lawyers say she was heard snoring and remained breathing after two injections Christina Coulter has been a Staff Writer covering crime at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Although rare, Dr. Sohaib Imtiaz — Chief Medical Officer at People Inc. — explains how someone can survive a lethal injection Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on the Health team. She ...

Christa Gail Pike was sentenced to death for a 1995 murder and was supposed to be executed Wednesday night. But after two lethal injections, she was still alive. A woman in Tennessee was supposed to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Christa Pike was in critical condition Thursday and receiving “lifesaving care” at a hospital, her lawyers said, a day after a failed attempt to execute her pushed Tennessee’s ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) on Wednesday halted capital punishments in the state, after death-row prisoner Christa Pike survived two lethal injections. “Carrying out a lawfully imposed sentence is ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Christa Pike is alive after she was administered a lethal injection on Wednesday night, according to witnesses. Witnesses said a second dose of pentobarbital was used after ...

An injection of a lethal drug failed to execute the lone woman on Tennessee’s death row Wednesday, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.