{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Christa Pike Survived WHAT Inside Tennessee’s Execution Chamber","description":"Christa Pike was scheduled to die on September 30, 2026. Tennessee gave her two lethal injections of pentobarbital. She survived both. Inside the execution chamber, witnesses reported Pike breathing, saying her arm felt like it was about to burst, and snoring audibly on the gurney. The state stopped the procedure and called an ambulance. Pike was taken to a hospital. Governor Bill Lee halted all Tennessee executions and ordered a third-party review of the lethal injection protocol. Pike murdered Colleen Slemmer, 19, in January 1995 at a Job Corps center in Knoxville. Slemmer’s family sat in the witness room and watched 31 years of waiting end in failure. With multiple botched executions nationwide, Tennessee’s catastrophe forces a question: can any state be trusted to carry out the death penalty?\n\nListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292\n\nWant to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1\n\nJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/\n\nInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/\n\nFacebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/\n\nTik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod\n\nX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod\n\nThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.\n\n#ChristaPike #ColleenSlemmer #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #BotchedExecution #Tennessee #DeathPenalty #LethalInjection #GovernorLee #Justice","author_name":"Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5078367-hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43865883/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}