Joel B. Zivot

Christa Pike, 50, woke up Tuesday and has no memory of the execution attempt.

Dr. Joel Zivot, an anesthesiologist and intensive care physician who is advising her lawyers, told the BBC.

Pike was re- able to recall her name and incorrectly guess the date, believing it was still the month of September, Zivot said.

Pike's botched execution attempt took place on the evening of September 30th.

But she does have major chemical burns on her arms, and that's due to, um, the lethal inj- uh, injection attempt that happened last Wednesday.

So that, um, attempt, uh, I spoke with her doctor actually yesterday, Dr. Joel Zivot.

Um, he said that he believes that the catheter either ruptured the vein or just didn't go into the vein, uh, which led to the pentobarbital to leak into muscle tissue, he believes, causing those chemical burns on her arms.

And my colleague, who was a witness to the execution, said she could h- hear Pike actually saying, um, "My arm feels like it's about to burst."

Her failed execution forced the state's top corrections officer to resign.

Dr. Joel Zivot consulted as an expert for Pike's legal team.

Tennessee has said that it has followed the execution protocol to the letter.

If the protocol is followed to the letter and this is what happens, then clearly you've got a problem.

El Departamento Correccional de Tennessee aún no ha explicado por qué la ejecución no se desarrolló según lo previsto, aunque ha defendido el método utilizado.

El doctor Joel Zivot, anestesiólogo que asesora al equipo de defensa de Pike, afirma que no se trataba de que Pike tuviera una inmunidad especial, sino que cree que no le llegó suficiente pentobarbital a su torrente sanguíneo como para matarla.

Dr. Joel Zivot, an anesthetic who advises Pike's defense team, claims that it was not that Pike had special immunity, but that he believes that he did not get enough pentobarbital into her bloodstream to kill her.

El doctor Joel Zivot, anestesiólogo que asesora al equipo de defensa de Pike, afirma que no se trataba de que Pike tuviera una inmunidad especial, sino que cree que no le llegó suficiente pentobarbital a su torrente sanguíneo como para matarla.

Según el protocolo de las autoridades penitenciarias, a Pike se le inyectó una segunda dosis del fármaco después de que la primera no le causara la muerte.

According to the protocol of the correctional authorities, Pike was injected with a second dose of the f-ármaco after the first did not cause his death.

It doesn't mean that she's out of the woods yet.

That's Dr. Joel Zivot, a professor of surgery and anesthesiology who was consulted as an expert by Pike's legal team.

He tells CBS...

I believe that she, uh, has very little memory of what happened, uh, during her execution.

Nearly a week after Tennessee attempted to execute her by lethal injection, Pike is now conscious, off the ventilator, and able to speak, although she remains in intensive care and her prognosis is still somewhat uncertain.

Now, a guy by the name of Dr. Joel Zivot, Z-I-V-O-T, an anesthesiologist and medical expert advising Pike's legal team, says that she can communicate on a basic level, was able to identify herself, but when asked about the dates that she apparently believed it was still September.

And the doctor says that Pike has some memories of being in the hospital, but based on his conversations with her, apparently has no memory of the September thirtieth execution attempt itself.

Well, there you go.

it on purpose.

Her own anesthesiologist, Dr. Joel Zivot, he will not call it over.

Listen to this.

He says, she's still in the ICU.