Tennessee inmate Christa Pike unconscious on ventilator after failed execution attempt

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike, 50, remained unconscious, intubated, and on a ventilator following a failed execution by lethal injection on Wednesday.

Pike was injected with two doses of pentobarbital that failed to cause death before being transferred to a Nashville-area hospital, prompting her lawyers to seek a sentence commutation.

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee ordered an independent review of the botched execution and halted all state executions for the remainder of the year.