# Christa Pike’s lawyer calls botched execution ‘cruel’ and ‘torturous’

https://mins.news/en/video/82945

- Guardian News, 2026-10-02 04:20 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He6bdfSLB_k

> Christa Pike is critically ill in a Nashville hospital after surviving Tennessee’s two attempts to execute her by lethal injection, her lawyers say. They say a blood disorder made it difficult to establish an intravenous line. Her lawyer, Randy Spivey, accused Tennessee of being unable to carry out an execution with “basic human dignity.”

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