# Botched Tennessee execution: Pike’s attorney speaks about her condition

https://mins.news/en/video/82614

- CNN, 2026-10-01 22:30 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDwZ4_gAK8

> After eleventh-hour legal challenges, Christa Pike was strapped to a gurney Wednesday night for an execution that would have made her the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years. But she remained alive and loudly snored after two supposedly lethal doses of pentobarbital were administered, leaving journalists witnessing the execution visibly puzzled.

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- [Tennessee Lethal Injection Failure](https://mins.news/en/topic/tennessee-christa-gail-pike-execution-failure) — Markdown: https://mins.news/en/topic/tennessee-christa-gail-pike-execution-failure.md

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