Christa Pike will likely still be executed despite surviving a botched attempt to put her to death, Tennessee‘s governor revealed.
Governor Bill Lee addressed whether Pike would still face the death penalty weeks after Tennessee officials administered two doses of pentobarbital in a failed attempt to execute her for the 1995 stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer.
‘As it related to a particular individual like Christa Pike and her crime, she’s still incarcerated under the laws of the State of Tennessee,’ Lee said, WSMV News reported.
‘I suspect her sentence will be the same as before unless determined otherwise by the courts,’ he added.
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