Ep. 1849 - Left Wing Radicals Side With An Evil Murderous Woman AGAIN

October 1, 2026

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On January 12, 1995, Krista Pike, then 18, invited a fellow student named Colleen Slemmer to walk with her, lured her to a secluded steam plant, and then, with her boyfriend, spent between 30 minutes and an hour torturing her to death. The attack involved a knife, a meat cleaver, a box cutter, and a chunk of asphalt. Pike carved a pentagram into Slemmer's forehead and chest. She kept a piece of Slemmer's skull as a souvenir, showed it to friends, and was seen eating breakfast with it the next morning. Last night, after three decades on death row, the state of Tennessee tried to execute her. The lethal injection failed. Pike survived two full doses of pentobarbital, the first person in recorded history to do so, and was taken to a hospital alive. The execution became a "morbid farce," and the episode uses it to argue a broader thesis: that left-wing activists and judges, driven by demographic tribalism and a ceaseless campaign against the death penalty, have made it nearly impossible to punish evil women for their crimes.

The botched execution and the systemic failure

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2 (00:00) **Krista Pike Execution Attempt and Systemic Failures** - Matt Walsh introduces the story of Krista Pike, a convicted female murderer whose execution was botched last night after 30 years on death row
3 (04:04) **Media Activists and Botched Execution Details** - Reporters covering the execution behave as activists, and medical professionals confirm the state had no protocol for what to do if the prisoner survived two doses
4 (11:19) **Simple Execution Methods the State Refuses to Use** - Walsh argues there is no reason executions should ever be botched, as simple methods like firing squads or hanging are 100% effective
5 (15:10) **Conspiracy Questions and Suspicious Circumstances** - Walsh raises the possibility the botched execution was intentional, given Pike's high-profile status as the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years
6 (17:25) **Female Privilege and Leftist Sympathy for Female Murderers** - Walsh compares the Pike case to the Lindsay Clancy trial, arguing feminists rally to defend female murderers simply because they are women
7 (21:57) **The Gruesome Details of Krista Pike's Crime** - Walsh provides the full factual background of Pike's 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer at a Knoxville Job Corps Center

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Show Notes

Christa Pike has survived two lethal injections and has been hospitalized. Judges and activists have done everything to prevent justice from being carried out. Could there be something else going on?

Ep. 1849

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