Death-row inmate Christa Pike seen during murder trial

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File footage shows Christa Pike during her murder trial in Tennessee in 1996 and 2012.

File footage shows Christa Pike during her murder trial in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1996 and 2012. Pike was convicted of the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer and sentenced to death. The footage captures Pike in court during proceedings that followed the killing.

Additional images show Pike in a Tennessee Department of Correction handout from 2023. Her execution in Tennessee failed on Wednesday after two doses of lethal injection were administered.

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