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Karma for Colleen Slemmer? The Horrific Botched Execution of Christa Pike
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In 1995, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer was lured into the Knoxville woods and brutally murdered. Her killer, 18-year-old Christa Pike, became the youngest woman on death row in modern U.S. history after keeping a fragment of Colleen's skull in her pocket.
30 years later, the State of Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike in Nashville—and what followed inside that execution chamber was a nightmare that has people asking: Was this karma, or an unprecedented state disaster?
After failed needle sticks, ruptured veins, chemical burns, and surviving TWO full doses of lethal…
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