Christa Pike's Execution Drama: How Two Failed Attempts Sparked Outrage

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A Tennessee murderer who would have been the first woman the state put to death in 200 years managed to survive the execution attempt — a stunning turn of events in the saga of the inmate who brutally killed a friend in 1995, when they were teens.

Christa Pike, 50, is still alive Thursday after receiving two doses of lethal injections after not one, but two botched lethal injections Wednesday night in Tennessee.