Tennessee inmate Christa Pike still alive after lethal injection dose, lawyers say

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Lawyers for Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike said she was still alive Wednesday night after being administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs. Pike’s federal public defenders wrote in a motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court that she survived after being given doses of pentobarbital at 8:26 p.m. local time, citing witnesses. They asked…