3SchemeQueens

Code Blue on Death Row: When Executions Go Wrong

October 13, 2026·52 min
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**Discussion begins at 5:00** In 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike committed the brutal murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a crime that would put Pike on Tennessee’s death row for three decades. On September 30, 2026, the state attempted to carry out her sentence using lethal injection. Two doses of pentobarbital later, Pike was still alive, ultimately leaving the prison in an ambulance rather than a hearse. But Christa Pike is far from the first condemned prisoner whose executi...

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