On September 30th, 2026, Colleen Slemmer’s mother traveled from Florida to watch the state of Tennessee execute Christa Pike. She’d been waiting thirty years. Officials administered two doses of a lethal drug, and Christa didn’t die. In the third and final part of our series on Christa Pike, Katie Ring covers the thirty years of appeals that followed her death sentence, the night the execution failed, and a case that still isn’t over.

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