According to media witnesses, Pike, 50, was alive and snoring when they were escorted from the death chamber.
The state of Tennessee failed to put Christa Pike to death Wednesday after two doses of a lethal drug were administered following a stay granted by a lower court before the Supreme Court allowed the execution to proceed.
A lawyer for Pike demanded that the governor commute her sentence after an attempt to execute her by lethal injection failed.
Tennessee officials failed to carry out the lethal injection of death row inmate Christa Pike on Wednesday. Her attorneys say she is alive and in critical condition after being given two separate doses of pentobarbital meant to kill her. Pike was sentenced to death for the gruesome murder of her classmate in 1995. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Deborah…
Christa Pike was set to become the first woman executed by Tennessee in more than 200 years on Wednesday, but she survived the execution attempt, which was delayed by nine hours, even after officials administered two doses of pentobarbital. Pike was alive as of Thursday morning and was transported to an off-site medical facility, according…
Independent inquiry ordered after halted execution of Pike, who was convicted of murderTennessee’s governor has suspended all executions in the state until at least the end of the year and ordered an independent inquiry after a botched attempt to put a condemned inmate to death on Wednesday night.Witnesses at the execution chamber in Nashville said Christa…
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has halted executions for the year after the state botched its planned execution of Christa Pike, the lone woman on Tennessee’s death row, late Wednesday night. She would have been the first woman executed in the state in over 200 years. Pike survived two syringes of pentobarbital, the drug used for…
Christa Pike was transported to hospital after the failed attempts. Her condition remains unknown.
California has 564 inmates under death sentences — and gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra is weighing in on the state’s death penalty after Tennessee’s botched execution of Christa Pike.
