Christa Pike remains critical as lawyers seek commutation, senator urges electric chair

Christa Pike remained in critical condition Thursday, a day after surviving two lethal injection doses in Tennessee's attempted execution for a 1995 murder. Attorney Randy Spivey said she was receiving life-saving care. Experts called her survival unprecedented. Gov. Bill Lee halted Pike's execution and the state's other execution scheduled this year and ordered a review; her lawyers urged him to commute her sentence. Sen. Marsha Blackburn criticized the process and called for the state to bring back the electric chair.