Christa Pike unconscious and on ventilator after botched execution: Attorneys

ABC News reports: She remains "critically ill,' her attorneys said Friday. Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, remains "critically ill," unconscious and on a ventilator in a hospital, two days after a botched execution attempt, her attorneys said Friday. "She is being treated for the serious effects of the pentobarbital administered during the execution attempt, including significant injuries to both arms," her attorneys, Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, said in a statement on Friday.

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