The Tennessee death-row inmate woke up in the hospital “angry and confused about everything,” her attorney said.
Judge tells Tennessee officials all items in execution room must be saved as Pike remains restrained in hospital bedA judge ordered Tennessee officials on Wednesday to preserve all evidence related to the botched execution attempt on convicted murderer Christa Pike, as it emerged that the state has refused pleas from medical staff to allow her to be…
Death row inmate Christa Pike survived two lethal doses of pentobarbital last week and remains hospitalized in Nashville.
A Nashville judge on Wednesday ordered the Tennessee Department of Corrections to preserve all evidence related to the failed execution of Christa Pike. It comes after lawyers for Pike, who survived two doses of lethal injection, requested that all materials showing the “incompetent and reckless actions” be collected. Counsel for Pike, 50, appeared in court…
A Tennessee judge ordered the state Wednesday to preserve all evidence related to the September 30 botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike. Chancellor I’Ashea L. Myles granted the request at a status hearing after Pike’s attorneys argued that evidence from the failed attempt would be needed to challenge any future effort to execute her. ...
