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US death row inmate Christa Pike taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections, says lawyer
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike has been taken to the hospital after she was still alive following two lethal injections during her execution, her lawyer says.
Colleen Slemmer The attempted execution went ahead after the US Supreme Court overturned a reprieve granted by a lower court on Wednesday morning.
Pike was 18 when she and her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, beat, tortured and killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, whom they met at a job training camp for troubled teens.
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