Christa Pike is alive and receiving 'life-saving care' in hospital, her lawyers say

Christa Pike is alive and receiving "life-saving care" at hospital, after multiple attempts to execute her failed, leading the Tennessee governor to halt all executions for the year.Speaking to reporters on Thursday, her lawyer Randy Spivey said he had not seen Pike or had direct contact. "We don't have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment," Spivey said. "But we do know that that she is alive right now." Pike, 50, was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer. Tennessee prison officials attempted to administer two lethal doses of pentobarbital to Pike on Wednesday, but she survived and was taken to hospital. She was 18 when she and her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, beat, tortured and killed 19-year-old Slemmer.Pike would have been the first woman to be executed in Tennessee for over 200 years. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee said on Thursday the investigation into Pike's botched execution "will be thorough", adding that "it's going to take time"."There are a lot of questions," Lee said. "The people of our state deserve to have those questions answered, and that's what this investigation is for." Lee has not made clear who will conduct ...