Crime

Pike’s lawyer said he noticed her arm ‘turning purple’

Christa Pike’s lawyer says ‘she’s alive’ following a botched execution attempt

The US president is very rarely able to read the room, it seems.

The Tennessee death row inmate is still alive after two rounds of lethal injection drugs during her planned execution on Wednesday evening

A double murderer has had his execution postponed

She was hospitalised after her lethal injection failed to execute her

The mother of the woman Pike killed called Pike's botched execution 'a mess'

She's not the first death row inmate to have the lethal injection not work

The neighborhood was in chaos after police and bomb disposal experts swarmed the area

Linda Patrik was married to Unabomber Ted Kaczynski's brother and grew suspicious of her brother-in-law

Jackson Duke, 17, and Luke Etheridge and Zara Shaw, both aged 16, all died in the horrific incident

Dakota Harper, 21, and Felicity Eatmon, 22, were arrested on Tuesday (29 September)

The United States' infamous death row has been in the headlines this week

Christa Pike was due to be executed via lethal injection on 30 September in Tennessee

She murdered at 18 but will finally meet the ultimate punishment at 50-years-old.

Douglas Stewart Carter spent decades on death row, before being released

Teen killer Christa Pike, now 50, is convicted of killing a classmate in 1995

Somehow, she denies all charges.

Christa Pike will become the first woman to be executed in the state of Tennessee in 200 years today (30 September)

Christa Pike's final attempt to to stop the execution has failed