Witness Reveals the Exact Moment He Realized “Something’s Going Wrong” During Christa Pike’s Execution
Posted by Team - October 4, 2026
A reporter who witnessed the botched execution of murderer Christa Pike revealed the moment witnesses knew something was going wrong.
Death row inmate Pike, 50, was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee for over 200 years Wednesday, but was instead rushed to hospital after two bungled attempts to end her life.
“As we’re sitting in this room, and it’s now taking nearly an hour for them to open the curtain from the time that we’re sat, one of my colleagues in there, who had seen her fair share of executions, who was kind enough to kind of walk me through the process, leaned over and said, ‘It should not be taking this long for the curtains to open. Something’s going wrong,’” Will Puckett, one of just seven media witnesses at the execution, told The US Sun.
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Christa Gail Pike, on death row for a slaying, appears in court Thursday, April 12, 2012, in Nashville, Tennessee.IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters ConnectPuckett dubbed the experience “surreal” and admitted he had been left “at a loss for words” during the botched execution at the Riverbend Maximum Security Insтιтution in Nashville.
A reporter who witnessed the botched execution of murderer Christa Pike revealed the moment witnesses knew something was going wrong. Death row inmate Pike, 50, was set…
