# Christa Pike ‘conscious and speaking’ after failed execution, lawyers say

https://mins.news/en/video/88892

- BBC News, 2026-10-07 00:23 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3_bQRU1YYg

> Death-row inmate Christa Pike is “conscious and speaking” after surviving a failed execution attempt in Tennessee last week, her lawyers say. The 50-year-old remains in critical care at a Nashville hospital while handcuffed. She was sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering Colleen Slemmer in 1995.

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