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Christa Pike was “kind and polite” and even tried to help her executioners during her botched lethal injection, her lawyer said.
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is awake and speaking at a Nashville hospital nearly a week after surviving a failed execution attempt, her defense team confirmed in a statement. Pike survived two lethal doses of pentobarbital during the September 30 procedure at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution.
Lawyers seek preservation of evidence after prisoner received two doses of pentobarbital on 30 September