# A Tennessee judge has granted a motion for the state to preserve all relevant evidence related to the failed execution of death row inmate Christa Pike. The 50-year-old, who was sentenced to death following her conviction for a murder in 1995, is in the hospital after surviving two lethal doses of the drug pentobarbital last week. In the motion, Pike’s lawyers argued that the Tennessee Department of Correction inflicted “a cruel and unusual punishment” through its deliberate indifference to her basic medical needs and reckless disregard of basic medical practices.
A judge orders Tennessee to preserve relevant evidence in the botched execution of Christa Pike