Tennessee death row inmate survives two lethal injection attempts

A Tennessee prisoner survived two attempts to execute her by lethal injection on Wednesday. Christa Pike, 50, was given two doses of a drug called pentobarbital, but her heart kept beating. Witnesses said she complained of a burning pain in her arm, and her skin showed burns and blisters from the drugs. The process lasted over two hours. Her lawyers asked a court to stop the execution while it was still happening. Pike was then taken to hospital, where she remained unconscious on a ventilator four days later. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has ordered an independent review and paused all other executions for the rest of the year. Pike's legal team has asked for her death sentence to be cancelled. Pike was convicted of murder in 1996.