Tennessee ordered to preserve evidence from botched Christa Pike execution
The Tennessee Attorney General's Office argued a court order was unnecessary as evidence from the death chamber already had been collected and logged
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The Tennessee Attorney General's Office argued a court order was unnecessary as evidence from the death chamber already had been collected and logged
Lawyers for Christa Pike, who survived two lethal injections, gave updates on her condition, saying she is severely unwell, and ‘angry and confused about everything right now’. Following a court hearing on Wednesday, a judge ordered Tennessee officials to preserve all evidence from the botched execu
Randy Spivey, one of Pike’s attorneys, said Pike “is angry and confused about everything right now.”
Lawyers seek preservation of evidence after prisoner received two doses of pentobarbital on 30 September Christa Pike, a Tennessee prisoner who survived the state’s attempt to execute her, is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital, her attorneys said, as they head to court on Wed
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