Christa Pike was on ventilator, unconscious after botched lethal injection, lawyers say

Lawyers for Christa Pike said Friday that she was placed on a ventilator and unconscious after Tennessee’s failed attempt this week to execute her by lethal injection.

In a court filing, the attorneys alleged that Tennessee officials failed to follow their own lethal injection protocol while trying to execute Pike with the drug pentobarbital. The execution team acted incompetently and showed “deliberate indifference to her basic medical needs,” they wrote.