Lawyers for Christa Pike said she's unconscious and on a ventilator after a botched execution attempt. Pike is believed to be the first person to have survived the administration of lethal drugs in the modern era.

The stunning failure in Tennessee’s execution chamber on Wednesday has left both sides on the death penalty debate demanding answers.

Convicted killer Christa Pike was left gravely ill, unconscious and hospitalised on life support after Tennessee's failed attempt to execute her by lethal ⁠injection, her lawyers have said.

Christa Pike, sentenced to die for torturing and killing 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995, said as her scheduled lethal injection began that she was at peace.

The lawyers accused Correction Department officials of shrugging off prior warnings that pre-existing medical conditions would make placing IV lines especially difficult.

Christa Pike remains on a ventilator after Tennessee’s failed execution attempt, with her attorneys reporting critical injuries from the lethal injection. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Christa Pike remains critically ill on a ventilator after Tennessee’s botched execution, with lawyers seeking to preserve evidence and reveal injuries.

Christa Pike's attorneys say she remained in a hospital where she was placed on a ventilator and unconscious hours after her failed execution in Tennessee.

Calls for a nationwide halt to the US death penalty are growing after Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike left her alive and in critical condition.Pike, 50, was given two syringes...

In a recent interview, Colleen Slemmer's mother, May, felt she had failed her daughter after Christa Pike's botched execution.

Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike say she is in critical condition, unconscious and breathing through a ventilator following a botched lethal injection attempt Wednesday night.

Christa Pike was hospitalised after surviving two attempts to execute her using lethal injection.

After Christa Pike's failed execution by lethal shots, a medical expert hired by her legal team explained that pentobarbital might have leaked into her arms, causing 'significant burning.'

Tennessee is facing criticism after the failed execution of Christa Pike.

"I didn't get justice for my daughter," Slemmer's mother said after witnessing the failed execution.

The convicted American death row inmate, Christa Pike, has survived execution attempts after she was being administered with two lethal injections. The 50-year-old was charged with murdering the...