- A Tennessee judge has ordered state officials to preserve all evidence following the botched execution of death row inmate Christa Pike.
- Pike, 50, survived a September 30 lethal injection attempt after receiving two doses of pentobarbital at Riverbend maximum-security prison.
- Defense attorneys described Pike's recovery as medically unprecedented after she regained consciousness following time on a ventilator.
- Tennessee Governor Bill Lee called the incident deeply disturbing, ordering a third-party review and postponing the state's next scheduled execution.
- The state Attorney General's Office argued the preservation order was unnecessary, claiming all evidence from the death chamber had already been logged.
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