Christa Pike unconscious and on ventilator after botched lethal injection; bent needle pulled from her arm, lawyers say

Christa Pike, who was to be the first woman executed in Tennessee, was given two doses of pentobarbital Wednesday at Riverbend prison but was found alive and heard to snore. She is now unconscious and on a ventilator, her attorneys say, and a bent needle was pulled from her arm; her lawyers are seeking commutation of her sentence.

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