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Christa Pike Is Under Guard at Hospital, May Not Fully Recover After Failed Execution
Christa Pike Botched Execution
Under Guard, May Not Fully Recover
… Lawyer Reveals
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An attorney representing Christa Pike has said that his client may never fully recover from her botched execution … and claims that her hospital room is under guard as she remains on a ventilator.
Stephen Ferrell revealed to Jake Tapper on CNN Sunday that Pike is still hospitalized and “critically ill.”
Ferrell said … “She is guarded. I’m not sure who may have seen her. I know I have not seen her. The state of Tennessee has not yet said whether it will ultimately try to execute her again.”
And if they don’t execute her … Ferrell believes Pike “may not fully recover.”
He added … “I think one of the main things that will leave this up in the air for a while is the fact that we don’t know what the prognosis is, as in the long term prognosis.”
As you know … despite 2 lethal injections, Pike survived the attempt to put her to death.
Witnesses of the botched execution described that Pike indicated that she was experiencing severe pain in her arm … before she fell unconscious and started snoring.
Pike’s attorney said Sunday that doctors — who are baffled as to how Pike survived as far as Ferrell knows — were still trying to clear the lethal pentobarbital from her body.