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Christa Pike now walking after US execution went wrong, lawyer tells BBC

World | 2026-10-08 at 08:13 UTC | Source: www.bbc.co.uk
A lawyer says the murderer of Colleen Slemmer is moving around her hospital room after surviving two lethal injections.
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