We’re soon going to be hearing from Christa Pike’s lawyers, who will be asking a judge in Tennessee to have all the evidence from her botched execution on Wednesday 30 September preserved.
But before we turn our attention to court, here’s a look back at what you need to know from the last seven days:
- Wednesday – Pike’s execution is allowed to move forward after an 11th hour appeal. She is given two lethal injections of the drug pentobarbital, but her legal team says these failed to stop her heartbeat
- Thursday – Pike’s lawyers say she is alive and critically ill in a Nashville-area hospital
- Friday – Pike is unconscious, intubated and on a ventilator, her lawyers say. Tennessee orders an investigation and halts all remaining executions for the year
- Saturday – Tennessee announces that its head of prisons is resigning
- Sunday – Pike’s prognosis is still unclear, her lawyers say, adding they are not sure who has been to see her
- Monday – Lawyers renew calls for the state to commute her death sentence
- Tuesday – Pike is “conscious and speaking” and expected to recover, her lawyers say. They add that her prognosis is still not fully clear
