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Christa Pike survives botched execution in Tennessee
Death row inmate Christa Pike survived two doses of lethal injection in Tennessee on Wednesday and remains in critical condition.
Christa Pike, who was 18 when she killed teenager Colleen Slemmer at a job training camp, survived a lethal injection execution attempt in Tennessee on Wednesday. She would have been the first woman executed in the state in over 200 years. Pike was injected with two full doses of pentobarbital but remained alive, prompting Governor Bill Lee to halt the procedure. She is now hospitalised in critical condition and receiving life-saving medical care. Her lawyers have called on the governor to commute her death sentence, and have condemned the execution as 'chemical torture'. The UN human rights chief has also urged authorities not to pursue further execution attempts. Governor Lee has suspended all executions in Tennessee until at least the end of the year and ordered an independent inquiry into the failed procedure.
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