Colleen Slemmer
- Oct 8
Texas executes Jamaal Howard, first US execution since failed lethal injection of Christa Pike
Jamaal Howard, 46, was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday, the first US execution since Tennessee's failed attempt on Christa Pike one week earlier. Courts rejected his lawyers' requests to halt the execution, which was carried out with the same drug used on Pike.
- Oct 5
Christa Pike walks with help and eats after surviving Tennessee's failed lethal injection
Christa Pike, 50, has begun walking with assistance and eating at a hospital, her lawyers said Thursday, a week after two doses of pentobarbital failed to kill her. Her attorneys warn that uncertainty remains about her physical recovery and her legal standing.
- Sep 30
Christa Pike remains in coma after surviving botched Tennessee lethal injection
Death row inmate Christa Pike remains unconscious on a ventilator four days after surviving 10 grams of pentobarbital during a botched execution in Tennessee.
- Sep 28
Federal appeals court halts Christa Pike execution in Tennessee one hour before scheduled injection
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency stay on 30 September 2026 to review claims of childhood abuse, delaying what would have been Tennessee's first execution of a woman in two centuries.
