One of Christa Pike’s attorneys said “it is unimaginable that the state would try to execute her again” after a Tennessee judge granted a motion to preserve relevant evidence in her botched execution. ▻ ↧ Judge grants motion to preserve evidence in Christa Pike's botched ... Christa Pike was sentenced to death after being convicted of the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.