Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator after botched execution: Lawyers

Christa Pike has been placed on a ventilator and intubated after surviving a failed execution attempt, according to a court filing from her lawyers. The Tennessee woman, they wrote on Friday, “remains critically ill” and is unconscious while receiving treatment at a hospital in Nashville. According to the filing, medical staff are working to save Pike’s life and clear her system of the two doses of the drug pentobarbital, which the US state uses to execute prisoners. “Upon arrival, both of her arms were swollen, burned, and blistered,” Pike’s lawyers wrote about the drug’s effects on her body.