Brian Entin brings in the police chief from Christa Pike's case as she lies on a ventilator

The episode passed a million views in about a day, and its comment section keeps returning to the victim and her family.

Channel: Brian EntinStory of October 4, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,105,470 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (96,436).

Christa Pike on ventilator, arms injured after botched execution — chief calls her “pure evil”

Brian Entin's newest full episode on Christa Pike goes over her condition after the failed execution in Tennessee. Her attorneys say she is critically ill, unconscious and intubated, breathing with the help of a ventilator, and the title adds that her arms were injured.

Entin brings in two guests. The first is the police chief who investigated the case, who explains why he describes Pike as "pure evil." The second is a death penalty expert, who walks through what could happen to her next.

The episode passed a million views in about 29 hours. A new video on the channel usually ends its first day near 96,000, so this one drew roughly eleven times that. Its comments came in more than four times faster than usual.

Many of the most liked comments are about the victim, whom viewers name as Colleen, and about her mother. Several thank Entin for giving the case's victim space in the episode. Others ask why the case has taken three decades to reach this point, and why a person sentenced to death is being kept alive. One viewer who lost a brother to murder writes about what an ending does and does not bring to a family.

The long episode sits among several shorter updates Entin posted as the story moved: one on Pike being placed on a ventilator, one in which a doctor who has treated similar overdoses tells him she could fully recover, and one on the state's corrections chief stepping down. None of them came close to the full episode with the chief.

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The numbers

The full episode drew about eleven times the channel's usual first day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

96,436

this video

1,105,470

subscribers

663,000

▲ 9,000 in the last 7 days

total views

207,804,292

views per day

426,793

typical day: 493,801

the video

views

1,252,152

likes

27,688

comments

9,711

days online

2

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

STAYAWAKE - Crime & Psych…

763,000

JustThoughtLounge

741,000

Brian Entin

663,000

Attorney Larry Forman

628,000

Well, I Never

614,000

Crime Zone

594,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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