Christa Pike's prognosis still unclear after failed execution, lawyer says
Pike's lawyer says doctors are still trying to clear two lethal doses of pentobarbital from her body.
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Pike's lawyer says doctors are still trying to clear two lethal doses of pentobarbital from her body.
The Tennessee woman's legal team says doctors are working to clear doses of the drug pentobarbital from her system.
As of Thursday night, Pike remained critically ill and is being treated at a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee.
Texas reporter Michael Graczyk has seen botched executions in his time, but not one in which an inmate survived.
The high-profile execution of murderer Christa Pike is in disarray after two lethal injections failed to kill her.
The death by lethal injection was scheduled to happen earlier on Wednesday before judges from a lower court paused the execution.
Lawyers for Pike, who killed a fellow student in 1995, say she should get clemency and would not be sentenced to death if the crime happened today.