Source: ABC News
“Christa Pike is conscious and speaking nearly a week after a botched [killing attempt by state employees] left her critically injured and temporarily on a ventilator, her attorneys said Tuesday. … Pike, 50, continues to receive medical care after she survived being administered two lethal doses of pentobarbital and was hospitalized following the failed Sept. 30 [killing] in Nashville, her attorneys said. She has ‘severe damage’ to her arms and remains handcuffed to her bed, her attorneys said. … Her attorneys said Tuesday they continue to ask Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to commute her sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.” (10/06/26)