Emergency calls from botched Christa Pike execution released to US media
A series of calls, obtained by the Associated Press, reveal emergency services were delayed in reaching Pike.
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A series of calls, obtained by the Associated Press, reveal emergency services were delayed in reaching Pike.
The convicted US killer who survived a botched execution was walking around her hospital room though she was mentally โfoggyโ, her lawyer said in an interview broadcast on Thursday. Christa Pike, 50, had been considered brain-dead following two lethal doses of the drug pentobarbital last Wednesday that failed to kill her. Doctors had been planning to remove life support on Tuesday when she unexpectedly woke up and started talking, her lawyers have said. โShe is up and walking for the first time...
The woman who survived a failed execution in a US prison last week is now conscious and speaking, but her prognosis remains unclear, her lawyers said on Tuesday. Christa Pike, 50, who was sentenced to death for a murder she committed when she was a teenager, received two supposedly lethal doses of the drug pentobarbital at a Tennessee prison a week ago.
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.