# Christa Pike

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- Type: person
- Updated: 2026-10-13T11:24:39.918Z
- Canonical: https://atlas.lootura.com/us/person/christa-pike

## Recent changes

### Calls Show How Confusion Delayed Emergency Response for Christa Pike

The first 911 call from inside the prison was made at 8:40 p.m. It took about 30 minutes to verify its authenticity.

Date: 2026-10-13

### Christa Pike discharged from the hospital and back in prison

Pike's attorneys say she is grateful for the care of first responders and her medical team. (Image credit: Tennessee Department of Correction).

Date: 2026-10-10

### After Christa Pike’s Botched Execution, Tennessee’s Lethal Injection Protocol Draws Scrutiny

The differences between the current protocol and the previous one have become a focus in Christa Pike’s failed execution.

Date: 2026-10-10

### Christa Pike is ‘Angry and Confused’ After Failed Execution

Death row inmate Christa Pike’s attorneys are shedding new light on her ongoing health struggles following the failed execution. “She has pneumonia. She is not able to swallow yet, so she has not eaten,” her attorney said, adding about her mental state, “She is angry and confused about everything right now.” Meanwhile,.

Date: 2026-10-08

### Christa Pike, Confused After Failed Tennessee Execution, Is at Center of Legal Storm

Her awareness and condition deepen ethical and legal questions after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her for murdering a classmate decades ago.

Date: 2026-10-08

### Inmate 'angry and confused' after botched execution

Attorneys for the death row inmate at the center of that failed execution in Tennessee revealed why they were shocked when Christa Pike woke-up and began talking. NBC News’ Aaron Gilchrist has more.

Date: 2026-10-07

### 'We could all hear her breathing': Witnessing the failed execution of Christa Pike

Catherine Sweeney was in the witness room when Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike on Sept. 30. An attempted execution in May had also failed. Here's what Sweeney saw and heard. (Image credit: George Walker IV).

Date: 2026-10-06

### Tennessee Prison Chief Was Hired Despite a Trail of Troubled Executions

The failed execution of Christa Pike has prompted new scrutiny of Frank Strada, who resigned as the state’s top prison official on Saturday, and his past role overseeing executions in Arizona.

Date: 2026-10-03

### Tennessee Commissioner Resigns After Failed Execution of Christa Pike

Frank Strada, who oversaw the process that left Christa Pike unconscious and hospitalized, quit as an independent review began.

Date: 2026-10-03

### Tennessee's prisons chief is resigning after the failed execution of Christa Pike

Frank Strada said in a statement that resigning was "in the best interest of Tennesseans" while an independent review determines what happened Wednesday when the state failed to execute Pike despite administering two doses of a lethal drug.

Date: 2026-10-03

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