Christa Pike's attorneys say she's in critical condition after botched lethal injections

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Convicted Tennessee killer Christa Pike survived two botched lethal injection execution attempts and is now hospitalized in critical condition.

Christa Pike's attorneys give update after botched lethal injections

Convicted Tennessee killer Christa Pike is hospitalized in critical condition a day after two botched lethal injection attempts in the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, Pike's attorneys said Thursday.

"Christa is alive right now," Randy Spivey, one of her lawyers, told reporters in a news briefing delivered over Zoom Thursday afternoon. "We don't have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment."