Christa Pike remains unconscious and on ventilator after failed execution in Tennessee
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Summary
Christa Pike remains in the hospital, unconscious and on a breathing machine after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her. The state gave her two doses of pentobarbital, but problems with the intravenous lines meant the drug did not enter her bloodstream properly.Key Facts
- Christa Pike was given two doses of the drug pentobarbital during a failed execution in Tennessee.
- Medical staff are working to save her life and remove the drug from her system.
- Pike’s lawyers say the IV lines were not correctly placed, causing the drug to enter her body improperly.
- Despite the problem, the execution team gave a backup set of the drug without fixing the line issue.
- Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for a 1995 murder involving a satanic symbol carved into the victim.
- She would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.
- The failed execution has led some lawyers, doctors, and religious leaders to ask for a pause on the death penalty in the U.S.
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