The brief
Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder, media witnesses said, after the lethal injection was halted for hours as courts considered a last-minute appeal of what would have been the state’s first execution of a woman in at least 200 years. She was alive and loudly snoring after the attempted lethal injection and taken by ambulance from the prison Key points and original sources are listed below.
- Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder, media witnesses said, after the lethal injection was halted for hours as courts considered a last-minute appeal of what would have been the state’s first execution o...S1
- She was alive and loudly snoring after the attempted lethal injection and taken by ambulance from the prisonS2
- Only woman on Tennessee 'death row' is in hospital after two injections failed to kill her.S3
