Christa Pike on ventilator and unconscious after failed Tennessee execution, attorneys say
Emergency vehicles arrive at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution after the execution of Christa Pike was halted Sept. 30 in Nashville. (George Walker IV/AP)
Hospital staff, her lawyers said, were working to save Pike’s life and, as of late Thursday, were trying to clear the two doses of the drug the state uses to execute prisoners.
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