From death row to a botched execution and back: A timeline of Christa Pike’s case | CNN

Christa Pike appears at a court hearing in July 2007, as Pike's attorneys renewed their effort to get her off death row. See all topics Email Link Copied!

After spending decades in prison for a gruesome murder, Christa Pike was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years. But something went wrong.

The 50-year-old survived two ostensibly lethal doses of the drug pentobarbital, spent more than a week in the hospital and returned to a maximum-security prison as her future remains uncertain.