Christa Pike Remains Unconscious on a Ventilator Nearly Two Days After Botched Execution, Attorneys Say

Christa Pike is critically ill, unconscious, intubated and on a ventilator almost two days after her botched execution, her lawyers said Friday.

Hospital staff were working to “save” Pike’s life and “clear the pentobarbital drugs from her system” after she received two doses of a lethal injection in a bungled execution Wednesday night at Riverbend Maximum Security Insтιтution in Nashville, the attorneys revealed in a court filing.

Pike’s legal team made grisly new claims in a motion for the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) to “protect and preserve any and all evidence” related to her attempted execution.

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“Apparently at no point did any member of the execution team realize that the IV lines were not correctly placed or that the veins had blown and that the pentobarbital was, in whole or in part, entering Ms. Pike’s body,” they wrote.

The lawyers argued that instead of “remedying this failure,” Pike’s executioners “administered another lethal dose of pentobarbital.”

In a separate statement to The Post, her lawyers said “Christa remains hospitalized” and “is critically ill, unconscious, intubated and receiving breathing ᴀssistance through a ventilator.”