Christa Pike remains on ventilator after failed execution in Tennessee
Attorneys say hospital staff are working to clear pentobarbital she was administered from her system
TL;DR
- Christa Pike is hospitalized and on a ventilator after her execution in Tennessee failed.
- Her attorneys claim issues with IV lines caused the execution drug, pentobarbital, to be administered incorrectly.
- They have requested a court order to preserve all evidence from the failed execution.
- Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer.
- The governor of Tennessee has ordered a third-party investigation and paused all executions in the state.