From last request to failed execution: Inside Edition follows Christa Pike
A short built around lethal-injection specialist Dr. Joel Zivot passed a quarter of a million views in seven hours, as the channel's preview of the execution crossed a million.
Inside EditionStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 562,508 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (36,101).
What Went Wrong In Christa Pike's Failed Execution?
Inside Edition has now covered Christa Pike's execution from both sides of the day it was meant to happen. As we reported here, the channel's preview told of Pike's final request: an all-female execution team. That video has since passed a million views. The follow-up puts its question in its title: what went wrong?
Pike was convicted of murdering fellow student Colleen Slemmer in 1995, when Pike was 18. She was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. On Wednesday she was given two lethal injections of pentobarbital, and she did not die. A month earlier, her lawyers had argued that her veins were difficult to access. For the short, Inside Edition spoke to Dr. Joel Zivot, a specialist in lethal-injection procedures who worked with Pike's legal team.
Seven hours after it went up, the video had passed a quarter of a million views, about seven times what a new upload here usually draws in its whole first day. The comments came in faster still. More than a thousand arrived in those few hours, where a short on the channel usually gathers fewer than a hundred in a full day.
Much of that talk turns to Colleen Slemmer and to her mother, who, many commenters say, traveled to Tennessee to witness the execution. Others puzzle over the veins and ask what happens to Pike now.
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- Channel
- Inside Edition
- Subscribers
- 13,800,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,489,233 (on a normal day: 2,241,059)
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 256,161 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 562,508
The numbers
The figures below show a short news report moving far faster than the channel's usual first day, with its comment section busier still.
