Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

Christa Pike, the woman who survived an execution attempt in Tennessee earlier this week, is on a ventilator as she receives care in the hospital, her lawyers said in a new statement Friday.

“Christa remains critically ill and is receiving medical care for the devastating effects of Wednesday night’s events,” the lawyers’ statement said. “She is critically ill, unconscious, intubated and receiving breathing assistance through a ventilator.”

The statement said she is being treated for “the serious effects of the pentobarbital administered during the execution attempt, including significant injuries to both arms.”

The state of Tennessee attempted to put Pike to death Wednesday night by lethal injection for a murder she committed when she was 18. She has been on death row for decades, and would have been the first woman executed in the state in 200 years.

But she survived two lethal doses of the drug, and was rushed to the hospital, where she has been since.

Pike’s attorneys, Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen, detailed her condition in a new filing Friday. It asks the state to preserve all evidence from the failed execution attempt.

In a statement, they said the filing “details the serious complications that occurred during…

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