A latest development in Christa Pike’s botched execution has revealed that representatives from the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution told 911 dispatchers that nobody from the prison had requested any medical assistance, despite emergency responders already being on their way to the facility on September 30.
Prison representative claimed nobody called 911
A prison representative told 911 dispatchers that nobody from the facility called 911 after Christa Pike’s botched execution. BY: TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Tennessee authorities turned a deaf ear to numerous requests to not proceed with Pike’s execution, mostly based on arguments about her rough childhood and ineffective defense counsel at the time.
Pike’s execution proceeded as planned on September 30 at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. However, Pike survived, despite receiving two doses of pentobarbital, becoming the only person in history to do so.
In a recording obtained by from Nashville’s Department of Emergency Communications, a Metro Nashville emergency communications representative contacted the facility to confirm Pike’s failed execution…