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Christa Pike receives "vital medical care": what you need to know about a woman's failed execution in the US. United States.

Christa Pike, 50, remains in critical state in a Nashville hospital after surviving an attempt to execute by lethal injection in Tennessee, an episode his lawyers call "chemical torture" and which has revived the debate on the death penalty in the United States. Pike received two doses of pentobarbital during the procedure, but did not die. The governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, suspended the executions planned for the rest of the year and ordered an independent investigation into what happened.

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Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike survives execution attempt

Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, survived Tennessee's effort to execute her by means of lethal injection late on Wednesday, prison officials said, foiling the state's first attempt to put a woman to death in two centuries. Pike's condition following the ordeal was not immediately known, and it was not clear what legal avenues her lawyers or the state might pursue ​next after she was ‌taken for medical treatment from the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.