Christa Pike remains in a hospital, where she is unconscious and on a ventilator, with severe burns on her arms after her botched execution, her lawyers say.
Her attorneys filed an emergency motion on Friday seeking an order requiring the Tennessee Department of Correction to protect and preserve all evidence related to the State’s failed execution.
Pike, 50, was injected by at least seven needles on Wednesday as medical staff attempted to give her two lethal doses of pentobarbital, according to the filing.
‘At one point, Ms Pike herself offered guidance on where the IV team could attempt access; one needle was bent at a
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