Christa Pike, US death row inmate, asks that $20 for last meal buy pizza for Nashville homeless

In the United States, Christa Pike, a 50-year-old death row inmate in Tennessee, survived a scheduled execution after receiving two doses of pentobarbital. The day before, she declined her last meal and asked that the $20 allocated for it be used to buy pizza for homeless people in Nashville. Pike was convicted in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer. After the failed execution, she was unconscious and on a ventilator. The incident has sparked debate about the death penalty and execution methods, leading to the resignation of Tennessee's corrections chief.