Tennessee is considering a second attempt to execute Christa Pike, a convicted murderer whose first execution attempt was halted after officials were unable to establish the intravenous access needed to administer the lethal injection.

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, a fellow student at the Job Corps training center in Knoxville. Prosecutors said Pike and another woman lured Slemmer into a wooded area, where she was attacked and killed.

Pike was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1996. Her case has remained in the Tennessee courts for decades as appeals and legal proceedings delayed her execution.

When Tennessee attempted to execute Pike, the procedure was stopped after medical personnel encountered difficulties establishing an IV line. The failed execution attempt raised questions about whether the state would seek another execution date and what method would be used.

State officials are now considering another attempt to carry out the sentence. Any new execution would be subject to additional legal proceedings and scheduling requirements before it could take place.

Pike's case has drawn renewed attention to the practical and legal challenges surrounding lethal injection, particularly when an execution does not proceed as planned.

A second execution attempt would make Pike one of the relatively small number of death-row inmates in the United States to survive an initial execution attempt, though the legal process surrounding her sentence remains ongoing.