Death row inmate Christa Pike survived two injections during her execution in Tennessee and remains in critical condition in a Nashville hospital as doctors try to remove the pentobarbital from her body, according to The New York Times.
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Christa Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of a 19-year-old acquaintance.
Christa Pike, sentenced to death, suffered severe consequences from her failed execution in the US state of Tennessee. As several US media reported, citing local court documents, Pike was unconscious and on a ventilator on Thursday evening.
According to the New York Times, Pike remains in critical condition in a Nashville hospital. Hospital staff are working to save Pike's life and remove the injected pentobarbital from her body, the newspaper quoted the 50-year-old's lawyers as saying.
Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of a 19-year-old acquaintance. She was supposed to be executed with a lethal injection on Wednesday evening, but survived two injections.
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Christa Pike, who was sentenced to death in the US state of Tennessee, remains unconscious after a failed execution with pentobarbital and is being artificially ventilated. Her lawyers report burns and swelling on her arms due to incorrect injection of the drug into the tissue. Gov. Bill Lee has suspended all further executions for the rest of the year and ordered an outside investigation.