““Is this normal?”” Christa Pike asked as she was being executed by lethal injection in Tennessee. The woman, who was convicted of murdering Colleen Slemmer in 1995, had received two doses of pentobarbital but was still alive. 😱
Journalists who witnessed the procedure said Pike was gasping, moaning, and even snoring behind the chamber curtain. She continued doing so for more than 40 minutes after the final dose, in an execution witnesses described as abnormally long. ⚠️
Her lawyers maintain that difficulty accessing her veins caused what happened, while a doctor warned that the delay in receiving care could have caused her a brain injury. 🏥