The Economic Times

Execution failed in Tennessee: Christa Pike, who survived 2 lethal doses,was raped multiple times as a child; suffered horrific trauma worse than 99% of Americans

Christa Pike survived a failed execution in Tennessee after two doses of lethal-injection drugs were administered. The death row inmate had suffered severe childhood trauma, with an expert saying she experienced more severe adverse events than 99% of the US population. Pike was subjected to repeated sexual abuse and rape as a child before she was convicted of killing 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995.