Documents reveal Christa Pike has 'rare form of cancer' as she issues desperate prison plea

Christa Pike has become the first death row inmate to survive a lethal injection execution on 30 September, remaining unconscious and in critical condition for several days. Documents reveal she suffers from a rare form of cancer, leading to a desperate plea to prison bosses. Pike was originally sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of a 19-year-old classmate, whom she and her boyfriend tortured before stabbing the victim with a box cutter.