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What Did Christa Pike Do? Tennessee Execution Goes Wrong

Original: What Did Christa Pike Do? What to Know About the Botched Tennessee Execution.

Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, was the subject of a botched execution in the state, prompting renewed questions about her crime and how the procedure went wrong. Pike was convicted of the 1995 murder of fellow Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville. Reports are revisiting the case details and the circumstances of the failed execution.

Why now: A botched execution has drawn fresh attention to a decades-old death penalty case.

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• What Did Christa Pike Do? What to Know About the Botched Tennessee Execution. · The New York Times

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