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Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after she survived Tennessee’s execution attempt, her attorneys say
CNN ^ | 10/06/2026 | By Avni Trivedi

Posted on 10/06/2026 3:28:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her, is conscious and speaking as she continues to receive medical care at a hospital, according to a statement from her attorneys.

“Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care. Despite the severe damage she endured to her arms, she is still handcuffed and shackled to the bed. Her recovery is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery,” her attorneys said in a statement.

Pike survived two ostensibly lethal doses of pentobarbital last week after prison staff tried twice to carry out her planned execution for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

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What'd she say, FReepers?

"Blerrg, blergg..."

1 posted on 10/06/2026 3:28:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Just put a hole in her forehead and be done with it.

L


2 posted on 10/06/2026 3:30:13 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Seems that there was a Medieval Law or Roman Law that if the subject surviced the attempt to kill, he was to be let go free.


3 posted on 10/06/2026 3:30:23 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: Responsibility2nd

Gee, That’s so very sad.


4 posted on 10/06/2026 3:30:42 PM PDT by Howie66 (America First!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Damn so close, if they had just pulled the damn plug but oh well, just gives them another chance to do it right..put her ass against a wall and fire away


5 posted on 10/06/2026 3:31:47 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Responsibility2nd

I keep reading these headlines about her fast and read it as Christopher Pike from Star Trek


6 posted on 10/06/2026 3:32:05 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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To: Responsibility2nd

How’s the girl she carved a satanic symbol into doing?


7 posted on 10/06/2026 3:32:16 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

“I told you I wanted a firing squad.”


8 posted on 10/06/2026 3:33:30 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: rovenstinez

i heard same thing i might have to research that...wonder if hollywood wil have a new “hang em high”


9 posted on 10/06/2026 3:34:20 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Responsibility2nd
Lindsay Clancy should pay HER price for killing her OWN three babies.
How in the H**L can she be be allowed to live after what she did?
10 posted on 10/06/2026 3:34:25 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Responsibility2nd

One of the greatest books of all time “The Mad King,” by Edgar Rice Burroughs had our hero Barney Custer sentenced to the firing squad by the Hungarian Army. He’s only grazed in the head and wakes up to find a guy pawing through his pockets and the corpses piled around him. “Ghoul!” he cries out and decks the shocked thief, then escapes over the wall.


11 posted on 10/06/2026 3:34:52 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: janetjanet998

HA. Me too. I giggled every time her name was mentioned.

And I live 22 miles south of Nashville so I heard it A LOT.


12 posted on 10/06/2026 3:34:57 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Free Republic is going to be intolerable during the Republican Presidential primary in 2028.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

There should be a backup method at hand - say, a .22 pistol - to be employed if the primary method of execution does not work. It’s ridiculous that government would turn this into such a circus, and all on the taxpayer dime. End her suffering and let’s have some justice for once.


13 posted on 10/06/2026 3:35:22 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Responsibility2nd

If they couldn’t find a good vein to give her a lethal injection, how did they successfully manage to take blood tests, and insert an IV needle while she was unconscious? You know they had to do those medical procedures while she was out.


14 posted on 10/06/2026 3:36:12 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

This whole episode made anybody connected with the carrying out of her execution look like fools, dangerous fools, at that! This story received international attention.


15 posted on 10/06/2026 3:39:07 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Responsibility2nd

Give her Emergency Citizenship and send her to Canada, she’ll have it M.A.I.D.
They know how to get the job done the first time.
It’s what they do.


16 posted on 10/06/2026 3:41:03 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Responsibility2nd

Right? I don’t care… This woman had zero concern about the girl she killed. Tortured for 30 minutes or more, cut her, branded her with a pentagram, crushed her skull and kept a piece as a souvenir. Lovely woman
All of the Lindsay Clancy supporters love this

Just die already bitch. She’s lived way too long


17 posted on 10/06/2026 3:42:20 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Responsibility2nd

I wonder if she’s on an IV.


18 posted on 10/06/2026 3:42:22 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Texas Eagle

Terry Schiavo was unavailable for comment.

Remember when all these people couldn’t wait to see her dead?

I remember.


19 posted on 10/06/2026 3:42:49 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Responsibility2nd
Give me a pillow and I can fix this.
20 posted on 10/06/2026 3:42:52 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I just want FReepers to READ THE ARTICLE. And then think 30 secs before pounding keyboard.)
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