A Tennessee execution attempt on Christa Pike failed after two doses of pentobarbital did not kill her. Her lawyers now seek to preserve evidence as the state pauses further executions and orders a review.

Christa Pike is in critical condition after she survived two lethal doses of pentobarbital as part of her sentence.

NASHVILLE, TN - Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike was unconscious, intubated and on a ventilator on Thursday night, after authorities failed to execute her by lethal injection, her lawyers say in court filings. Pike, 50, was injected with two lethal doses of pentobarbital on Wednesday but remained alive. She was then sent to hospital in an ambulance. Pike remained critically ill and was being treated at a Nashville-area hospital. Lawyers for Pike, who was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer, are seeking to have her sentence commuted after the failed execution attempt. Pike's lawyers filed an emergency motion on Friday to preserve "any and all evidence" related to her botched execution. Hospital staff are working to save her life and clear the drug used, pentobarbital, from her system, the filing states. During the execution attempt, prison officials tried to start intravenous (IV) lines by using at least seven needles on Pike, according to her lawyers. At one point, Pike herself…

US inmate Christa Pike is in critical condition after a botched lethal injection execution in Tennessee, prompting calls to reconsider her death sentence. Read more at straitstimes.com.

US inmate Christa Pike is in critical condition after a botched lethal injection execution in Tennessee, prompting calls to reconsider her death sentence. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Christa Pike, who has been on death row in Tennessee for more than 30 years for torturing and murdering a classmate, was on Wednesday set to be executed, but the lethal injections meant to kill her failed.…