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After a flurry of eleventh-hour litigation, Christa Pike was strapped to a gurney Wednesday night, set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years.
But after being injected with two ostensibly lethal doses of pentobarbital, Pike was still alive, snoring loudly as journalists selected to witness the execution glanced at one another, wondering what was happening.
0:00 What happened during the failed execution attempt in TN?
0:38 Christa Pike's attorney speaks about the botched execution
3:17 A media witness to the execution describes what she saw
4:20 A professor of anesthesiology explains what a lethal injection is
5:43 Why wasn't the mistake caught before continuing with the injection?
6:50 What are the medical consequences of the botched execution?
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<br>Nearly 24 hours after Pike was set to be put to death for a murder she committed when she was 18, she remains in critical condition and is receiving care, her lawyers said Thursday afternoon. Her prognosis is unclear, said Randall Spivey, one of her lawyers. Neither he nor another lawyer, Stephen Ferrell, who spoke with reporters, said he had seen her in the hospital.