Christa Pike was on a ventilator and unconscious after failed Tennessee execution, attorneys say
Source Scout · Courthouse News Service reports: State officials have not offered any explanation about what went wrong during the execution attempt. (AP) — Christa Pike was placed on a ventilator and unconscious in a hospital in the hours after her failed execution in Tennessee, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday. Hospital staff, her lawyers said, were working to save Pike’s life and clear the two doses of the drug that the state uses to execute prisoners. The stunning failure in Tennessee’s execution chamber on Wednesday has left both sides on the death penalty debate demanding answers.