Christa Pike in ‘life-saving care’ after botched Tennessee execution
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Lawyers for death-row inmate demand clemency after two doses of lethal drug fail to kill her
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Agence France-Presse Published: 11:02am, 2 Oct 2026 Updated: 11:05am, 2 Oct 2026 A condemned female murderer who survived two lethal injections during a botched execution by the US state of Tennessee was in critical condition and receiving “life-saving care”, her lawyer said on Thursday.
In an extraordinary chain of events, Christa Pike, 50, was whisked from a prison execution chamber to a hospital Wednesday night, still alive despite two deadly doses of pentobarbital.
“What we have been told is that she is in critical condition, receiving life-saving care,” Randy Spivey said in a virtual news conference Thursday afternoon, declining to provide further details.
He urged Governor Bill Lee, who had denied a clemency request earlier in the week, to scrap Pike’s death sentence.
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