Lawyers Seek Order to Preserve Tennessee Execution Evidence

Lawyers Seek Order to Preserve Tennessee Execution Evidence

Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, will ask a court Wednesday to order Tennessee prison officials to save all physical, written and electronic evidence from the Sept. 30 lethal-injection attempt. Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital, the execution drug, and remains in critical care. Her lawyers say recovery would be medically unprecedented; her outlook is unclear.

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