Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after botched execution attempt, lawyers say
The prisoner received two doses of pentobarbital last Wednesday as authorities tried to put her to death
TL;DR
- Christa Pike, 50, survived two doses of pentobarbital during a Tennessee execution attempt.
- She is now conscious, speaking, and receiving medical care in a hospital.
- Pike's attorneys reported she is still handcuffed and shackled to her bed.
- The botched execution is the fifth under the state's prison chief since 2022.
- Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.