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‘Still alive and snoring’: Christa Pike’s attorneys file emergency motion to halt execution (opens the original)
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) – Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. Her attorneys have filed an emergency motion to halt her execution after they say Pike was “still alive and snoring” after receiving her lethal injection on Wednesday. “The vein in my arm feels like it’s about to bust,” one witness recalled her saying. According to the emergency motion, the Tennessee Department of Correc
Christa Pike: What to know about the failed execution and her ’grotesque’ 1995 torture, murder of classmate: ‘One of the most brutal I’ve ever seen’ (opens the original)
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - “The vein in my arm feels like it’s about to bust,” witnesses heard Christa Pike say on Wednesday as she was undergoing lethal injection, her sentence for the “grotesque” 1995 torture and murder of a Knoxville woman. The state administered two doses of pentobarbital that were supposed to be lethal. But witnesses and her attorneys say that they did not have the intended effect. Instead, one witness said, “heavy snoring is the best description we can get you for the noise
Attorneys for Christa Pike file emergency motion to halt execution after she was ‘still alive and snoring’ after receiving lethal injection (opens the original)
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Attorneys for Christa Pike have filed an emergency motion to halt her execution after they say she is “still alive and snoring” after receiving her lethal injection on Wednesday. “The vein in my arm feels like it’s about to bust,” one witness recalled her saying. According to the emergency motion, the Tennessee Department of Correction began the execution of Pike at about 8 p.m. CT. The motion says that both syringes of pentobarbital were administered and that Pike “has
Attorneys for Christa Pike file emergency motion to halt execution after she was ‘still alive and snoring’ after receiving lethal injection (opens the original)
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Attorneys for Christa Pike have filed an emergency motion to halt her execution after they say she is “still alive and snoring” after receiving her lethal injection on Wednesday. “The vein in my arm feels like it’s about to bust,” one witness recalled her saying. According to the emergency motion, the Tennessee Department of Correction began the execution of Pike at about 8 p.m. CT. The motion says that both syringes of pentobarbital were administered and that Pike “has
Attorneys for Christa Pike file emergency motion to halt execution after she was ‘still alive and snoring’ after receiving lethal injection (opens the original)
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Attorneys for Christa Pike have filed an emergency motion to halt her execution after they say she is “still alive and snoring” after receiving her lethal injection on Wednesday. “The vein in my arm feels like it’s about to bust,” one witness recalled her saying. According to the emergency motion, the Tennessee Department of Correction began the execution of Pike at about 8 p.m. CT. The motion says that both syringes of pentobarbital were administered and that Pike “has
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