Christa Pike Botched Execution: Victim’s Mum Cries ‘Injustice’, Issues CHILLING ‘Box Cutter’ Threat

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Christa Pike’s botched execution has triggered a deeply emotional reaction from the family of her 19-year-old victim, Colleen Slemmer. After Pike survived the failed lethal-injection attempt in Tennessee, Colleen’s mother, May Martinez, spoke about the pain of losing her daughter more than three decades ago. In an interview with PEOPLE, Martinez made a chilling statement about what she would have done had she been able to enter the execution room, saying she would have taken a box cutter and “cut her up like she did Colleen.” She also said, “I want to go kill Christa. How’s that?”