Christa Pike update as death row killer returns to prison after failed execution
10-10-2026 18:36 via chroniclelive.co.uk

Christa Pike update as death row killer returns to prison after failed execution

Christa Pike, 50, survived two lethal injections as the state attempted to execute her for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer
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