TN Attempting To Save Death Row Inmate Christa Pike After Botched Execution

Listen, this is turning out to be one of the most fucked up stories that I've ever covered, and that's saying a lot.

So after a back and forth all day, Tennessee has now tried to put to death the first woman in like a century in the state and has botched it.

She is apparently alive after receiving both lethal injection drugs.

Her lawyers say she's in agony.

Let's, let's break this down here.

Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike.

Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death for a nineteen ninety-five murder on Wednesday, according to media and witnesses.

Now, we have yet to hear from the Tennessee Department of, uh, Corrections, who is in charge of carrying out the execution.

This was hours after courts considered a last-minute appeal of what would have been the state's first execution of a woman in at least two hundred years.

I undersold it.

It was two centuries.

Pike, who is fifty years old, had been scheduled for execution for a killing she committed at age eighteen after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned an appeals court ruling that stopped the lethal injection just an hour before it was set to start.

So she was supposed to die this morning.

She was supposed to die this morning, and a circuit court put a halt on her execution.

The state of Tennessee appealed to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court said, "Go ahead." All three liberal justices dissented.

Officials appeared to give Pike two doses of pento barbital.

I butchered that, I'm sure.

Pentobarbital.

I still probably butchered it.

At seven forty-six PM, prison officials closed the curtain to the media room.

They raised the curtain three minutes later.

Pike could be heard loudly snoring, and the curtain was closed again at eight O six PM.

So this was about an hour ago, as I am talking to you right now.

Tennessee Department of Corrections spokesperson Dorinda Carter told media witnesses she was unable to immediately provide information about what happened.