Oct 5, 2026 · 57 min · 16 segments
Dawn opens the hour breaking down the horrific, botched lethal injection of killer Krista Pike in Tennessee. We examine how the media ignores the suffering of victim Colleen Slemmer and her grieving…
Dawn StenslandHost
Ian McGinnisGuest
Frank ScalesGuestDan BorowskiHost
But this is a real failure and, again, bias of the media, if you will, in a different way.
It has to do with, in the headlines, full of reports that are focusing on all the failures in this execution of a killer, Krista Pike.
This, yes, happened back in the 90s when she was 18, but she's now in critical condition on a ventilator, may have suffered, apparently suffered brain damage, two botched lethal injection attempts, and we saw the head of prisons who had already, in Tennessee, had already only been on the job, what, four months, 120 days, is now out of there and being held accountable.
Sometimes you see, even on so-called more conservative media, everybody is not putting it or burying the name of the only victim here.
Veteran investigators describing that scene where Colleen... suffered in pain where she was murdered, 1995, horrific.
And when they testified about this, they said it was one of the, if not the most horrific bloody scene they'd ever seen in their careers.
She suffered severely for about an hour, nearly an hour, begging for her life.
And that's according to the confession of the woman who was supposed to be executed.
This poor girl, they tortured her, cutting her with a box cutter, demonic deadly attack, pentagram charged, was, can you imagine this, carved on her chest.
Multiple blows repeatedly striking her face, her head with a chunk of concrete there.
When killer Krista Pike acted back then as the executioner of an innocent teen classmate, she was merciless, even saved a chunk of Colleen's skull as a souvenir.
But this is a real failure and, again, bias of the media, if you will, in a different way.
It has to do with, in the headlines, full of reports that are focusing on all the failures in this execution of a killer, Krista Pike.
This, yes, happened back in the 90s when she was 18, but she's now in critical condition on a ventilator, may have suffered, apparently suffered brain damage, two botched lethal injection attempts, and we saw the head of prisons who had already, in Tennessee, had already only been on the job, what, four months, 120 days, is now out of there and being held accountable.
Sometimes you see, even on so-called more conservative media, everybody is not putting it or burying the name of the only victim here.
Veteran investigators describing that scene where Colleen... suffered in pain where she was murdered, 1995, horrific.
And when they testified about this, they said it was one of the, if not the most horrific bloody scene they'd ever seen in their careers.
She suffered severely for about an hour, nearly an hour, begging for her life.
And that's according to the confession of the woman who was supposed to be executed.
This poor girl, they tortured her, cutting her with a box cutter, demonic deadly attack, pentagram charged, was, can you imagine this, carved on her chest.
Multiple blows repeatedly striking her face, her head with a chunk of concrete there.
When killer Krista Pike acted back then as the executioner of an innocent teen classmate, she was merciless, even saved a chunk of Colleen's skull as a souvenir.
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