Christa Pike would have been the first woman put to death in the U.S. state of Tennessee in more than 200 years.
A condemned murderer who survived two lethal injections during a botched execution by the U.S. state of Tennessee was in critical condition and receiving “life-saving care,” her lawyer said Thursday. Christa Pike, 50, was taken to a hospital after the failed attempts to put her to death on Wednesday night. It was not clear how she survived the deadly doses of pentobarbital.
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