Tennessee Governor Bill Lee suspects Christa Pike’s sentence will stay the same after her botched exє𝔠uti☉n last month.

Convicted murderer, Pike, 50, was set to be the first woman put to dєatᩚh in the Volunteer State in over 200 years on Sept. 30, but instead became the first prisoner in US history to survive after being given the lєthaℓ inje𝔠ti☉n.

“As it related to a particular individual like Christa Pike and her crime, she’s still incarcerated under the laws of the state of Tennessee,” Lee said.

dєatᩚh row inmate Christa Pike survived after her botched exє𝔠uti☉n. via REUTERS

“I suspect her sentence will be the same as before unless determined otherwise by the courts.”

Pike’s lawyers had begged Lee –– who will leave office in January –– to commute her sentence, saying she has “endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American dєatᩚh penalty.”

Lee paused all executions in the state for the rest of the year following the fiasco and ordered an independent review into what went wrong.

Pike was given the dєatᩚh sentence for murdering her Job Corps classmate Colleen Slemmer in a jealous rage in Knoxville in 1995.

After her failed exє𝔠uti☉n, Slemmer’s mom, May Martinez, said she thinks “the state owes me a big apology.”

“She killed my daughter and I don’t want to see another child or another person hurt like she did,” Martinez told First Coast News.

Christa Pike speaks with her attorney during a hearing in 2007. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect

Pike was rushed to hospital after she survived two doses of pentobarbital allegedly administered with at least 10 needles during her bungled exє𝔠uti☉n at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.

She remained unconscious in the days after the botched exє𝔠uti☉n and was believed to be brain dead before shockingly waking up on Oct. 6.

Pike is currently being held at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center (DJRC), formerly known as the Tennessee Prison for Women, and her lawyers said last week she is now speaking in full sentences.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee speaks during the 2026 Reagan National Economic Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on Friday, May 29, 2026. Bloomberg via Getty Images

Emergency vehicles arrive at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution after the botched exє𝔠uti☉n. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect

Earlier this month, a judge reopened Pike’s civil case against the use of lєthaℓ inje𝔠ti☉n to execute her.

The judge also ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to preserve all evidence related to the botched exє𝔠uti☉n after Pike’s lawyers argued it could be “relevant for any future challenge she makes.”