Christa Pike Scores a Major Legal Win — Judge Reopens Her Challenge to Lethal Injection
Posted by Team - October 9, 2026
Christa Pike scored a legal victory after a judge reopened her case against being put to death by lethal injection following her botched execution.
The convicted murderer, 50, was due to be the first woman put to death in Tennessee for over 200 years on Sept. 30 but instead became the country’s first death row inmate ever to survive the lethal injection.
In January, her legal team filed a complaint in court challenging the state’s lethal injection protocol, which was later dismissed by the Tennessee Supreme Court in May, according to court documents obtained by The Post.
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Murderer Christa Pike was sentenced to death for a murder she committed when she was a teenager, but survived a botched execution at a Tennessee prison.Tennessee Department of Correction/AFP via Getty Images
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Death row inmate Christa Pike enters a Knox County Criminal Court in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Dec. 4, 2007.via REUTERS
In an order issued on Thursday, Judge I’Ashea Myles ruled that the case should be reopened in the Davidson County Chancery Court in Nashville.
Christa Pike scored a legal victory after a judge reopened her case against being put to death by lethal injection following her botched execution. The convicted murderer,…
