Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has ordered a review after officials failed to put death row inmate Christa Gail Pike to death on Wednesday, administering two doses of pentobarbital without rendering her unconscious.
Pike was convicted at 19 years old over the brutal 1995 torture and murder of her classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was sentenced to death in 1996. At the time of her incarceration, she was the youngest person on death row.
She had been scheduled for execution at 10 a.m. on Sept. 30, but it was delayed until the evening after an appeals court stay had temporarily halted the execution.
Officials gave Pike two doses of pentobarbital, her attorneys said in court filings late Wednesday….