Christa Pike botched execution: How lethal injection is used in death penalty
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Christa Gail Pike, 50, survived Tennessee’s first attempted execution of a woman in about two centuries after two doses of pentobarbital were administered for the murder of classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995
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