Doctors work to clear drug from Christa Pike as prognosis still unclear
The prognosis for a Tennessee woman who survived two doses of lethal injection is still unclear, according to her lawyer, who said doctors are still trying to clear the lethal drug administered during her execution attempt.
TL;DR
- Christa Pike is hospitalized and intubated after surviving two doses of lethal injection during a botched execution attempt.
- Doctors are still working to clear the lethal drug from her system, and her prognosis is uncertain.
- Pike's lawyer is calling for her death sentence to be commuted, describing the execution attempt as torturous.
- Pike was convicted of first-degree murder in 1996 and sentenced to death.
- This is the second failed execution in Tennessee this year.