# Witnesses recount Christa Pike’s survival of two lethal injections

https://mins.news/en/video/81708

- Guardian News, 2026-10-01 10:47 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETwef41k4d8

> Christa Pike, convicted of murdering her classmate Colleen Slemmer three decades ago, survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her through two lethal injections, prison officials said. It was the state’s first attempted execution of a woman in 200 years. A witness recalled Pike saying her arm felt ready to burst before smiling broadly.

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