{"id":266153,"date":"2026-10-01T03:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/christa-pike-remains-alive-and-snoring-after-2-lethal-injections-her-lawyer-says\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T03:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:49:20","slug":"christa-pike-remains-alive-and-snoring-after-2-lethal-injections-her-lawyer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/christa-pike-remains-alive-and-snoring-after-2-lethal-injections-her-lawyer-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Christa Pike Remains \u2018Alive and Snoring\u2019 After 2 Lethal Injections, Her Lawyer Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Christa Pike Remains \u2018Alive and Snoring\u2019 After 2 Lethal Injections, Her Lawyer Says <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KvnPFJLnhG\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/KvnPFJLnhG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 People (@people) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/people\/status\/2105494914435776552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christa Pike briefly received a temporary stay of execution from a federal appeals court, but the U.S. Supreme Court lifted it hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Her execution was carried out earlier today, but after two lethal injections, she remains alive according to her lawyers.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1\"\/>They said she \u201chas not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat.\u201d Journalists who witnessed the attempted execution described snoring and complaints from Pike about pain. An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records, though her condition was not clear.<\/p>\n<p>Following the failed execution, attorneys for Pike filed an emergency motion asking the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee to intervene and issue a stay.<\/p>\n<p>Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of classmate Colleen Slemmer.<a name=\"cutid1-end\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/people\/status\/2105494914435776552?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center> <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132945665.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christa Pike Remains \u2018Alive and Snoring\u2019 After 2 Lethal Injections, Her Lawyer Says https:\/\/t.co\/KvnPFJLnhG \u2014 People (@people) October 1, 2026 Christa Pike briefly received a temporary stay of execution from a federal appeals court, but the U.S. Supreme Court lifted it hours later. Her execution was carried out earlier today, but after two lethal injections, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}