A prisoner who survived a US execution is in hospital on a ventilator.

A prisoner who survived an execution in the United States is in hospital, connected to a ventilator. This was reported by CNN.

We are talking about Krista Pike, who in 1995, with her companion, lured 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer to a secluded place, tortured and then killed. According to investigators, Pike feared that the girl was laying claim to her boyfriend. The case received wide publicity, including because of the carved satanic symbol on the victim’s body.

Pike was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, September 30th. The inmate was set to become the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, but after two failed attempts to administer the drug, she was hospitalized.

Now, according to the TV channel, she is receiving all the necessary help. Her future, her lawyers say, remains “highly uncertain.”

"She is being treated for serious effects from the drug administered during the execution attempt, including significant damage to both arms," ​​CNN quoted Pike's lawyers as saying, Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ainen.