A hearing is set for Wednesday on a motion to preserve evidence in the botched execution of Christa Pike. Pike survived being administered two lethal doses of pentobarbital and remains hospitalized following the failed Sept. 30 execution. Read more: ↧ Hearing set on motion to preserve evidence in Christa Pike's botche... Christa Pike was sentenced to death after being convicted of the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.