By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2026-10-08 14:26:55 | Updated at 2026-10-08 19:13:47
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Christa Pike was “kind and polite” and even tried to help her executioners during her botched lethal injection, her lawyer said.
The convicted murderer, 50, was rushed to hospital after surviving two doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville and regained consciousness Tuesday.
“Christa was at peace, she helped the execution team find what they thought was venous access,” her lawyer, Randy Spivey, told a press conference Wednesday.
A “kind and polite” Christa Pike tried to help her executioners during her botched lethal injection, according her lawyer. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect
Randy Spivey, lawyer for Christa Pike, speaks at a press conference in front of Metro Nashville Courthouse & City Hall in Nashville, Tennessee, Wednesday, October 7, 2026. Ray Di Pietro/Shutterstock“She was kind and polite as they worked for an hour, stabbing her arm with needle after needle, and then she felt the burn of the pentobarbital.”
Here’s the latest on the botched execution of Tennessee murderer Christa Pike:
- Christa Pike is ‘up and walking’ after botched execution — and she remembers: ‘She is angry’
- Texas executes Jamaal Howard despite same lethal injection drug used in failed Christa Pike execution
- Christa Pike’s aunt believes killer’s survival of botched execution is God’s will: ‘God is in control’
- Christa Pike went from ‘brain dead’ to awake and talking in just hours, lawyer explains
Pike is believed to be the first death row inmate in US history to have survived after being given the lethal injection.
She was sentenced to death for the sadistic murder of her 19-year-old Job Corps classmate Colleen Slemmer in Jan. 1995, when she was 18.
