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Christa Pike's attorneys say she is being treated at a local hospital following a botched execution. Attorneys said they have not been informed of her condition.
Tennessee officials have been unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. A death penalty expert said it
Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a classmate three decades ago, survived Tennessee's effort to execute her by means of lethal injection late on Wednesday, prison officials and her lawyers said, foiling the state's first attempt to put a woman to death in two centuries.