# Emergency calls after botched Christa Pike execution released to US media

https://mins.news/en/video/97840

- BBC News, 2026-10-13 10:45 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14CfNLeqv4g

> Newly released calls made after the failed execution of death row inmate Christa Pike show emergency services were delayed amid confusion among responders and Tennessee prison officials. Officials spent minutes trying to verify whether a call for help from the execution chamber at Riverbend Prison was genuine.

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