After receiving two doses of poisonous injections, he survived and miraculously recovered! Can a female death row inmate in the United States be put to death again and sit in the electric chair?

Tennessee's only female death row inmate, Parker Krista. Christa Pike. (Taken from the official website of the Tennessee Department of Corrections)

Krista, an American female death row inmate who miraculously survived after being injected with two doses of lethal poison on the execution table. Christa Pike has woken up and can speak after being in a coma for many days. This rare and major death penalty scandal in the United States not only caused medical shock, but also raised an unprecedented controversy in the American legal community: Can a death row inmate who has "died once" be legally dragged back to be executed a second time?

The New York Times reported that 50-year-old Parker is currently the only female death row inmate in Tennessee. Her defense lawyer team issued a statement on the 6th confirming that Parker was out of danger, regained consciousness and could speak after being rescued at a Nashville hospital. However, she suffered severe burns on her arms due to drug leakage and faces a long recovery. She is still handcuffed and shackled by the police in the ward.

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Brain hypoxia damage may be key to avoiding death

After Pike wakes up, the case quickly evolves from a medical accident into a constitutional storm. According to the precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court, the government cannot execute prisoners who lack the "rational understanding" of their own death penalty. If the lack of oxygen or poison in this execution caused permanent brain and cognitive damage to Parker, it would be legally difficult for the Tennessee authorities to execute him again. The current Republican governor, Bill Lee, has announced a moratorium on the death penalty across the state and launched an independent investigation. However, Marsha Blackburn, a conservative politician from the same party and a favorite candidate for the next governorship, advocates a different approach and has publicly proposed using the "electric chair" for executions.

The death penalty crisis originated on the evening of September 30, when Pike received a lethal injection at Reverband Maximum Security Prison. The executioner injected two doses of the powerful lethal drug pentobarbital. Witnesses through the glass were shocked to find that her chest was still heaving and breathing. The execution was stopped urgently, and she was sent to the hospital by ambulance for intubation and rescue.

Parker has been on death row for 30 years. She was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of a 19-year-old female classmate in 1995 when she was only 18 years old. Parker's legal team is scheduled to appear in court in Nashville on the 7th, asking the judge to order the state government to preserve all evidence of the syringes, infusion tubes, and residual chemicals, and reiterate their request for a commute to life imprisonment. The victim's family expresses grief and indignation that justice has been denied.