US Execution Survivor Christa Pike Critically Ill and on Ventilator

Christa Pike, who survived execution in the US state of Tennessee after two lethal injections, remains in critical condition and is connected to a ventilator, networks CNA and Channels TV reported.

According to her attorney, who has been unable to visit her, doctors at the hospital are still working to purge the lethal drugs from her body while she remains hospitalized under guard.

Following the incident, her lawyer urged Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to commute her sentence to life in prison. Further details regarding her medical condition have not yet been released.