Lawyers, experts urge Tennessee governor to commute Christa Pike’s sentence after botched execution
Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital in a botched Tennessee execution, and her lawyers now urge Gov. Bill Lee to commute her death sentence.
TL;DR
- Christa Pike survived her execution after receiving two doses of lethal injection drugs.
- Her lawyers are calling for her death sentence to be commuted to life in prison.
- Governor Bill Lee has halted further executions and ordered a review of the botched execution.
- This is the second failed execution in Tennessee this year.
- Pike was convicted of the 1995 murder of a classmate.
- She would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years.