Convicted killer Christa Pike survived her execution on September 30 after officials at the Tennessee Department of Correction administered two doses of lethal injection chemicals that failed to stop her heart. Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of classmate Colleen Slemmer, who she tortured and killed with the help of her then-boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp and classmate Shadolla Peterson.

After luring 19-year-old Slemmer to a wooded area at the University of Tennessee agricultural campus in Knoxville, Pike, then 18, cut her with a boxcutter, carved a pentagram in her chest, and crushed her skull with a chunk of asphalt. In March 1996, she was found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

Now, more than 30 years later, 50-year-old Pike is in the hospital after suffering a botched execution at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. She is reportedly in critical condition , and some medical experts believe she likely suffered a brain injury .…