Christa Pike has broken her silence one month after surviving a botched execution in Tennessee, telling supporters she “woke up alone in a hospital confused and in pain” after the state attempted to put her to death with two lethal injections of pentobarbital. The death row inmate, who was convicted of murdering her classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995, shared the written statement through her legal team on October 30, 2026 — exactly one month after she walked into the execution chamber at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on September 30, 2026, and, against every expectation, c...