Christa Pike is on a ventilator and unconscious after surviving lethal injection. What happened?

Christa Pike survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her via lethal injection on Wednesday, but her medical and legal future remain remarkably unclear.

Pike is intubated, on a ventilator, and remains unconscious in a Nashville-area hospital, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday. Pike is receiving lifesaving care after being injected with two ostensibly fatal doses of pentobarbital, her attorneys said Friday. “She is being treated for the serious effects of the pentobarbital administered during the execution attempt, including significant injuries to both arms,” Pike’s attorneys Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen said in a Read More....