A doctor explains what went wrong in Christa Pike's execution on TMZ In The Know

His interview drew more comments in seven hours than a usual TMZ video gathers in a day ten times over, and much of the talk is about veins and IV lines.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 168,045 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (12,142).

Doctor In Christa Pike Execution Speaks Out On What Went Wrong | TMZ In The Know

For a second day, the Christa Pike execution is the story TMZ's audience is choosing. As we reported here, a witness's account drew a crowd far beyond the channel's usual start. Now a doctor has stepped in for TMZ In The Know with a medical explanation of what went wrong.

A regular TMZ video ends its first day somewhere around 12,000 views. This one passed 75,000 in seven hours.

The comment section moved even faster. It reached nearly 500 comments in those hours, where a typical first day brings about 40. Much of it reads like a seminar. Viewers who describe themselves as nurses and medical workers debate whether the drugs ever reached a vein, how hard an IV line can be to place, and whether going hours without food or water made it harder. Others ask what the whole process costs, and several of the most liked comments turn the attention to the victim and her family.

The doctor's interview was not the only Pike video moving. The TMZ Live episode pairing a witness to the execution with news about Presley Gerber ran nearly as far ahead of the channel's usual first day, and Harvey Levin's newsroom stream for October 2 also opened well above normal.

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More from TMZVideo taking off 33x its usual first dayA witness to Christa Pike's botched execution draws thirty times TMZ's usual first dayThe comment section filled even faster than the views, much of it turning to the victim's family and to how the procedure was carried out.Channel: TMZ · Story of October 2, 2026

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The numbers

Two videos about the same execution, posted the same day, both opened at more than ten times a usual TMZ first day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

12,142

this video

168,045

subscribers

5,190,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

2,354,792,498

views per day

1,714,530

typical day: 679,843

the video

views

75,490

likes

991

comments

493

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

PBS NewsHour

5,380,000

The New York Times

5,280,000

NowThis Impact

5,240,000

TMZ

5,190,000

Daily Mail World

5,030,000

Global News

4,920,000

As of October 3, 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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