Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says

The lone woman on Tennessee’s death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.

At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said “executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring,” her lawyers said in a federal court filing.

They said that Pike “has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat” and that curtains to the death chamber “have gone down twice.”

Journalists who witnessed the attempted execution described snoring and complaints from Pike about pain, as well as her kicking her feet so often that she knocked off the sheets laid on her. At times, the curtain was closed and journalists could only hear sounds.

“It appeared that this did not go like they thought it was supposed to go,” said John North, investigative producer at WBIR television in Knoxville. “But we don’t know that. When we left the building, so far as we knew, she was probably still alive.”

An ambulance was seen arriving at the…

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