Media Simps for Most Evil Killer's Botched Execution.

Last night, Tennessee attempted and failed to execute murderer Christa Pike. Pike was given two lethal injections before she was taken to a local hospital alive. Christa Pike was eighteen year old when she lured her fellow Jobs Corps student and perceived love rival Colleen Slemmer to a secluded area and proceeded to beat, torture and murder Slemmer on January 12th, 1995 in Knoxville, TN. Pike was not alone. Accompanying Pike in Slemmer’s murder was her boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp. Shipp was sentenced to life in prison for his part in Slemmer’s torture and murder. Shipp was 17 at the time of the offense and ineligible for a death penalty sentence. Also present for Slemmer’s murder was fellow student Shadolla Peterson. Peterson turned State witness and served no prison time for what she described as her non-participating presence at Slemmer’s brutal beating and murder. Prosecutors claimed Pike carved a pentagram into Slemmer’s chest while she was still alive and bragged about her crime as she presented her friends with a piece of Slemmer’s skull - Pike had kept as a souvenir of her murder.

In this episode, Roberta explores the media’s excessively compassionate coverage and outrage at Pike’s botched execution. Roberta places the focus back on Slemmer’s surviving family- including her mother May Martinez and stepfather Raul Martinez who used two thousand five hundred dollars in raised cash to attend their daughter’s execution. You will hear much about Christa Pike’s “torturous” botched execution but expect media silence on the decades of torture Slemmer’s loved ones have been put through since Pike was sentenced to death.

Show Notes:
Channel 5 News “Christa Pike’s Attorney’s Speak” - https://youtu.be/QzsZAHdPPos?is=DcebFBys1TjLiCaa 
USA Today - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/10/01/christa-pike-botched-execution-updates/92035113007/
WVLTTV “Justice for Colleen” - https://youtu.be/4bDXSgursHU?is=tEBNaaFEY32b5Yl9
First Coast News - https://youtube.com/shorts/ge8KS0O_Nuo?is=QVsMDgdqxeavGdjn
WBIR “Pike’s Execution..” - https://youtu.be/njwtX8aVYWI?is=aKM6YM4wY0P5gnjV
WKRN "Victim's Mother Speaks..." - https://youtu.be/q9hRIKLKM5s?si=mOnvJK-v8ZdFM_yV
WBIR "May Martinez Plans to..." - https://youtu.be/te8UKZis2C4?si=uDKssoZsPyMP2ESz
First Coast News - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Mc_vTfORs 

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