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Christa Pike unconscious on ventilator days after failed Tennessee execution

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Christa Pike, 50, sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of classmate Colleen Slemmer, remains unconscious, intubated and on a ventilator at a Nashville hospital, her lawyers said Friday, two days after Tennessee's attempt to execute her by lethal injection failed despite two drug doses. Her attorneys said both arms were swollen and blistered on arrival and asked a court to preserve evidence of what they called a "botched" execution. Gov. Bill Lee has halted further executions this year and ordered a review.

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