Christa Gail Pike’s capital punishment procedure took a horrifying turn on Wednesday, September 30, after the Tennessee inmate was given two doses of the lethal injection.
She uttered what she thought would be her “last” words before receiving the injection for a crime she committed at the age of 18.
But even after it was administered, the 50-year-old was still conscious and talking from her capital punishment chamber. Attorneys wrote that she was “audibly snoring” at one point.