US officials fail to put Christa Pike to death by lethal injection

Witnesses say Tennessee officials were unable to execute Christa Pike after a lethal injection attempt.Published On 1 Oct 20261 Oct 2026Officials in the United States have failed to put a Tennessee woman to death for a murder she committed in 1995, after the lethal injection was halted for hours as courts considered a last-minute appeal to stay her execution.Christa Gail Pike, 50 had been scheduled to die on Wednesday for a killing she committed at age 18, after the US Supreme Court overturned an appeals court ruling that stopped the lethal injection just an hour before it was to start.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4US Senate blocks resolution seeking report on Americans killed in West Banklist 2 of 4Pennsylvania confirms fifth measles-associated death as US outbreak growslist 3 of 4US appeals court halts Tennessee execution of Christa Pikelist 4 of 4Christa Pike seeks firing squad, not lethal injection: Inside US executionsend of listHer death would have been Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in at least 200 years.Following the top court’s ruling, officials attempted to go ahead with the execution as planned and appeared to give Pike two doses of the sedative p...