🔸A female prisoner survived after receiving two lethal injections

During the first execution of a woman in the U.S. state of Tennessee in more than 200 years, unbelievable problems occurred. According to the defense lawyers of Krista Pike, the 50-year-old woman remained alive even after receiving two injections of lethal substances; a claim that appears in a judicial document related to this execution case.

The document states: “At 8:26 p.m., witnesses reported that the executioners administered both injection drugs containing deadly chemicals, but Pike was still alive and struggling to breathe.”

Shortly after, Judge Kyle Hixson announced that state officials, after a phone conference with the lawyers of all parties to the case, informed the court that “Ms. Pike has not been declared deceased.”

The organization responsible for prison affairs also ordered that emergency medical actions be carried out for Pike and that she be transferred to a hospital.

Human rights experts of the United Nations had previously asked the U.S. government and Tennessee officials to “immediately stop” the execution and to convert Pike’s death sentence into a prison term.

Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the killing of a 19-year-old young man. She herself was 18 years old at the time of the crime.

In 1995, three young people tortured another young man in a remote area near the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and killed him.

The case drew widespread attention across the United States because the victim’s body—named “Selmer”—was found with a pentagram (five-pointed star) carved on his chest; a symbol that is commonly associated with Satanism.