Inside Christa Pike’s unprecedented legal battle – electric chair or commuted sentence

Botched execution survivor Christa Pike faces a historic legal showdown as her lawyers look to prevent a second death attempt after calling for a commuted sentenceA botched execution has plunged the US justice system into uncharted territory after Death Row killer Christa Pike survived two lethal injection doses. The 50-year-old murderer, who was sentenced to death for the horrific 1995 killing of teenager Colleen Slemmer, was rushed to hospital after a state execution went disastrously wrong on September 30.