Christa Pike’s botched lethal injection takes focus off victim, jeopardizes execution: former police chief
30 with a last-minute appeal, a petition for clemency and requests for alternate modes of capital punishment and a team of all-female executioners. And while Pike exhibited signs of a career criminal, Slemmer was a teen who kept out of trouble and was focused on improving her circumstances, he said. Christa Gail Pike is seen during her trial for the murder of Colleen A.
- ▪30 with a last-minute appeal, a petition for clemency and requests for alternate modes of capital punishment and a team of all-female executioners.
- ▪And while Pike exhibited signs of a career criminal, Slemmer was a teen who kept out of trouble and was focused on improving her circumstances, he said.
- ▪Christa Gail Pike is seen during her trial for the murder of Colleen A.
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True Crime Christa Pike’s botched lethal injection takes focus off victim, jeopardizes execution: former police chief Phil Keith, who oversaw Pike's arrest for Colleen Slemmer's murder, questions whether the state will execute anyone again By Michael Ruiz , Ashley Papa Fox News Published October 2, 2026 7:00am EDT Comments Facebook Twitter Threads Flipboard Print Email Add Fox News on Google close Video Christa Pike may never be executed after botched injection takes focus off victim, says chief who handled case Phil Keith was Knoxville's chief of police in the 1990s, when Christa Pike and two friends tortured and killed a classmate named Colleen Slemmer.
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