Christa Pike, the inmate sentenced to death in Tennessee, survived a failed execution attempt

Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee and the first scheduled for execution in the state in over two centuries, survived her execution on Wednesday after being administered two doses of pentobarbital. The events occurred in Washington and Tennessee, according to reports by journalists who witnessed the procedure and information provided by Pike's legal defense team.

Pike had spent nearly three decades in the state's death row before the scheduled execution procedure took place. Despite the administration of the lethal drug doses, she survived, prompting updates from her lawyers and eyewitness accounts from reporters present at the scene.