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Christa Pike's Lawyers Reveal Her Injuries: Purple Arm, Burns, Bent Needle — Now on a Ventilator

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A needle bent at a right angle. Both arms burned and blistered. And Christa Pike is now unconscious on a ventilator.

Her lawyers have filed an emergency motion with new details from the failed execution, and one part of it may hint at why she survived at all.

What did the filing reveal? Why are her lawyers racing to preserve the evidence? And what could decide whether she ever wakes up?

Sources: NBC News, ABC News, WBIR, WKRN, NewsNation, Death Penalty Information Center.

Details about her injuries and condition come from her attorneys' court filing. Information reflects public reporting at the time of upload.

#ChristaPike #TrueCrime #BotchedExecution #Tennessee #ColleenSlemmer

20 Comments

@genewoodward8695 5 hours ago

I put in hundreds of IV's and never once was one bent at a right angle.

@beckymmccaffrey673 6 hours ago

I bet her tortured and beaten victim went through something much worse than this criminal did

@JDcorgis 5 hours ago

So stupid try to kill her then save her. All because the prison was incompetent

@paulac875 5 hours ago

How come they don't finish the sentence ? Her victim died horribly at her hands.

@pammywammy 4 hours ago

Nothing compared to what Colleen went through. Nothing!!!!!!!!!

@ShirleyRobinson-f9n 6 hours ago

Well she did not care that the girl she unalived wanted to live and did not care hoe much pain Colleen suffered. Pike never suffered that kind of pain. Stop feeling sorry for her for she went later to try and take another life

@patty-q9u8w 5 hours ago

The system is wrong !! The goal was to kill her yet they are not allow to continue to push 3 or 4 lethal injections into her until she was dead. They stopped and then tried to save her. Crazy!!!!!

@deyonnapattie8973 5 hours ago

How about we talk about the brutality that was inflicted on Colleen ? By the hands of Christa? Divine redemption.

@Winnie-xs8ml 4 hours ago

Why not just wait? If she was not given medical attention / food / water then eventually the monster would die. If she suffers then good, so did her victim.

@JDcorgis 5 hours ago

Don’t feel one bit for sorry for her. Seems like her veins are good enough for the hospital to do it

@dragofloyd8765 5 hours ago

Who cares she deserves all that comes with it. The way she beat Colleen she didn’t have mercy for her victim. Man cry me a river.

@Mr.Zero1960 3 hours ago

This doesn't even compare to what her victim had to endure till her death!

@tammyjohnson7496 5 hours ago

She took huge stone broke a skull after 2 smashes then kept part of skull let alone the suffering the other girl went through.

@andrewstolz3253 2 hours ago

This is a horrific story on all fronts.....From the horrible murder to the horrible execution.....we have failed as a society on all fronts.

@robslade2571 5 hours ago

The needle my not have gone in properly. A 7.62mm rifle round would have done.

@DavidWilliams-ch9ng 5 hours ago

She had a death sentence and after the failed execution they sent her to a hospital and put on a ventilator.
WTH they should have returned her to her cell and waited she would be dead now instead of being artificially kept alive. It just doesn’t make sense.

@lindag.2412 5 hours ago

If she was to be executed why are they using life saving measures

@elmanel1686 5 hours ago

Something fishy about bent needle. Did she not get a IV canula to administer the drug?

@KathyHales-vm6qk 6 hours ago

Make sense of a failed execution attempt turned into life support!

@anitavaughn1968 5 hours ago

If she had a medical history of having IVs placed in blood drawn, and what not they should’ve had somebody who was skilled in working with people who have that kind of medical history to place the IV.