Christa Pike donated her last meal to homeless before botched execution Read our Privacy notice Just before the state of Tennessee botched her execution and left her unconscious and on a ventilator, it offered Christa Pike a last meal.
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Tennessee Illustrative image, not of the event Image: Kaldari / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) The head of prisons in the US state of Tennessee is resigning after the failed execution of death row inmate Christa Pike on Wednesday.
What could happen next I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. ✓ See how we verified it and its 2 sources✓ How we verified this storyAttributed (not independently confirmed) Read our Privacy notice Just before the state of Tennessee botched her execution and left her unconscious and on a ventilator, it offered Christa Pike a last meal — The Independent She had been convicted and sentenced to death for torturing and murdering her classmate, Colleen Slemmer, when she was 18 years old — The Independent Start your Independent Membership today — The Independent She turned it down, asking instead that the money that was to be spent on her be used to buy pizza for homeless people in downtown Nashville — The Independent Pike, as of Oct. 3, was unconscious, intubated, and on a ventilator at a Nashville-area hospital following the failed execution — The Independent The 50-year-old woman's execution had been a point of contention and concern for both her legal team and anti-death penalty advocates in the weeks before the incident — The Independent This story was checked against 2 independent sources. We only report as fact what reliable sources confirm; anything not yet confirmed is flagged as such.
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