Christa Pike, the 50-year-old death row inmate in Tennessee who survived two lethal injections, is now conscious and able to speak. Dr. Joel Zivot, an anesthesiologist advising Pike's attorneys, told BBC that Pike does not remember the execution attempt but has been able to communicate in a "basic way." She reportedly believed that it was still September.
Pike was given two doses of pentobarbital during the attempted execution at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on September 25. Her attorneys claimed that execution personnel used at least seven needles but failed to administer pentobarbital through intravenous lines. One of the needles reportedly bent at a 90-degree angle, as per a report in the New York Post.
