Christa Pike was nearly taken off life support before waking, lawyers say

Lawyers for Christa Pike, the Tennessee woman who survived a botched execution attempt, have said that their client was nearly disconnected from life support before she awoke this week in a United States hospital.In a news conference on Wednesday, Randy Spivey, who represents Pike, described her as feeling “angry and confused” about what happened.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Tennessee prisons official resigns after Christa Pike’s failed US executionlist 2 of 3Christa Pike lawyers say she is speaking one week after failed executionlist 3 of 3Christa Pike is awake after surviving execution: What happens now?end of list“Monday night, our understanding was that Christa was brain dead, and life support would be removed the next day,” Spivey told reporters.But on Tuesday, he said, “Christa woke up and began talking.”Spivey added that Pike did not seem to recall the execution attempt itself. Upon waking up in her hospital room in Nashville, she reportedly asked those in the room, “Where am I?” and “Who are you?”Pike had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on September 30. But after receiving two doses of pentobarbital, she remained alive, becoming the first person b...