Did Christa Pike's Execution Protocol Ever Plan for Her to Survive?

Christa Pike told the execution team where to try the needle, her lawyers say. They tried at least seven times, by her lawyers' count, before getting two doses of pentobarbital into her on September 30, 2026. She was still snoring when officials cut the microphone and called an ambulance. The Tennessee Department of Correction says it followed its lawful, established protocol and that the protocol did not allow additional procedures. Pike is the only woman on Tennessee's death row, convicted of the 1995 torture killing of Colleen Slemmer. Her lawyers have asked a Nashville court to preserve every piece of evidence from the chamber, and the Attorney General has hired former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton to review what the department did. Former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and Tony Brueski on whether a state can sign off on an operation with no plan for its own failure, and what Stanton can learn from the one witness who felt all of it.

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