Tennessee dispatchers doubted execution-chamber plea as possible prank, delaying aid

Newly released emergency calls show dispatchers questioned whether a plea for help from Riverbend Prison's execution chamber was real or a prank/swatting. The confusion delayed aid for minutes while Christa Pike, 50, remained alive after surviving two pentobarbital injections Sept. 30. Her attorney Kelly Gleason told dispatchers Pike was breathing and needed life-saving care.