Tennessee inmate Christa Pike still alive after lethal injection dose, lawyers say 

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Lawyers for Tennessee death-row inmate Christa Pike say she remained alive after receiving two syringes of pentobarbital during a lethal-injection procedure. Her federal public defenders cited witness accounts in a motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Lawyers for Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike said she was still alive Wednesday night after being administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs.   Pike’s federal public defenders wrote in a motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court that witnesses reported she had been given doses of pentobarbital at 8:26 p.m. but was “still alive and…