Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia \u2014 A shocking case has emerged in the United\nStates. Christa Pike, a death-row inmate, has reportedly regained\nconsciousness and begun speaking after surviving a failed attempt to\nexecute her by lethal injection in Tennessee last week.<\/p>\n
Citing CNN International and BBC International, Pike\u2019s lawyer, Randy\nSpivey, said his client woke up in hospital \u201cangry and confused\u201d. Her\nfirst two questions after regaining consciousness were: \u201cWhere am I?\u201d\nand \u201cWho are you?\u201d<\/p>\n
She is reportedly the only prisoner in the United States known to\nhave survived an attempted execution by lethal injection. How did it\nhappen?<\/p>\n
How the case began<\/strong><\/p>\n Pike, 50, was subjected to an execution attempt on 30 September 2026.\nShe was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Pike\nwas 19 at the time. She and her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, beat,\ntortured and killed Slemmer.<\/p>\n Shipp was 17 when he committed the crime, so he could not be\nsentenced to death because he was below the legal age of adulthood. He\nremains in prison.<\/p>\n According to Pike\u2019s lawyer, her legal team believed for several days\nafter the lethal injection that she had suffered brain death. They were\ntold that the life-support equipment sustaining her would soon be\nremoved.<\/p>\n But Pike\u2019s condition changed unexpectedly. On Tuesday, 6 October, she\nbegan speaking, although she remembered only a small part of what\nhappened during the execution attempt.<\/p>\n Her lawyer also said Pike had helped the execution team find a vein\nin her arm. She was reportedly kind and polite during the injection\nprocedure.<\/p>\n After two doses of pentobarbital failed to kill her, Pike was taken\nto hospital. She remained unconscious for several days while medical\nstaff worked to clear the drugs from her body.<\/p>\n Pike is currently receiving intensive medical care. Both her arms are\nseverely swollen, one arm has a blood clot, and she has pneumonia. She\nis also reportedly unable to swallow.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t know what all of this will do to her mental health,\u201d Pike\u2019s\nlawyer, Randy Spivey, said, describing her condition after waking as\n\u201cangry and confused\u201d.<\/p>\n Judge orders evidence preserved<\/strong><\/p>\n The failed execution could also become grounds for legal action\nagainst the state of Tennessee. At an emergency hearing on Wednesday,\nPike\u2019s lawyers asked a judge to order the state to preserve all evidence\nrelating to the execution.<\/p>\n Chancellor I\u2019Ashea Myles ordered that all items in the execution\nchamber be retained, including intravenous tubing, syringes, drug waste\nand packaging, labels and related documents. The judge also requested\nrecords documenting Pike\u2019s psychological condition before, during and\nafter the attempted execution on 30 September.<\/p>\n Tennessee Deputy Attorney General Will Ayers said the case was in an\nunusual procedural position. He argued that the emergency request was\nunnecessary because the state was already obliged to preserve the\nevidence.<\/p>\n The judge nevertheless asked the state to take particular care to\nensure that no information relevant to the case was lost, misplaced or\ndeleted. Asked whether Pike\u2019s execution would be rescheduled, Ayers said\nhe did not know.<\/p>\n Tennessee Governor Bill Lee also issued a statement. He ordered a\ntemporary halt to all executions in the state until the end of the year,\nsaying the government needed answers about what had happened during\nPike\u2019s execution attempt.<\/p>\n The head of Tennessee\u2019s correctional agency also resigned following\nthe failed execution. Pike\u2019s lawyer said communication with his client\nhad been very limited in recent days because she had been\nunconscious.<\/p>",
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