Christa Pike's Execution Sparks Chaos After Surviving Two Lethal Injections

Tennessee’s first woman to be executed in over 200 years is still alive after receiving two doses of a lethal injection — as her attorneys race to file an emergency stay.

Christa Pike, 50, was strapped to a gurney in the Nashville death chamber just before 7:30 p.m. CDT after the US Supreme Court overruled her stay of execution an hour earlier, The Tennessean reported.

Witnesses on site to watch the historic execution take place recalled Pike speaking in full sentences as she was set to be put to death.