Tennessee execution of Christa Pike halted after she was heard snoring, witnesses say
Officials were unable to complete the lethal injection after Pike reportedly continued breathing 40 minutes after receiving two doses of pentobarbital.
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Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Pike on Wednesday after media witnesses reported hearing her snoring roughly 40 minutes after she had been administered two doses of a lethal injection drug, according to witnesses who attended the procedure.
Pike was sentenced to death over a 1995 murder. During a press conference following the halted execution, media witnesses described hearing her snore well after the drug, identified as pentobarbital, had reportedly been administered twice.
An ambulance was seen arriving at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution ahead of the press conference, though Pike's condition afterward was not immediately clear, according to witnesses.
The incident raises questions about the circumstances surrounding the attempted execution, though full details of what went wrong, and Pike's current status, had not been confirmed at the time of the witnesses' accounts.
Sources
- Tennessee woman ‘snoring’ and still alive as execution halted, witnesses say — The Guardian — World
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