Christa Pike and Sandra Birchmore Both Had a Paper Trail Saying WHAT?

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Oct 10, 2026 · 59m

Two cases in one sitting with defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis, and both of them have a document that predates the damage.

In Tennessee, it is a lawsuit. Christa Pike's attorneys filed in January arguing that her blood condition and small veins created a serious risk that an IV line would fail during her execution. The state disputed it. The execution went ahead on September 30, two doses of pentobarbital were administered, and Pike survived. Her lawyers say the lines failed and the drug went into the tissue of both arms. The Department of Correction says it followed its…