Christa Pike’s attorneys said Thursday that she is critically ill in a Nashville hospital, still unconscious and unable to communicate, but not in a coma, after the state failed to kill her with two doses of a lethal injection the night before.Randy Spivey, one of Pike’s lawyers with the Tennessee Office of the Post-Conviction Defender, told reporters the defense team has little sense of her prognosis.“We don’t have much sense of her prognosis, but we do know that she is alive right now and receiving lifesaving medical care,” Spivey said during a virtual press conference.Spivey is asking Gov. Bill Lee to commute her death sentence immediately, arguing that “Christa has endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty.”WATCH: BREAKING: CHRISTA PIKE’S ATTORNEY DEMANDS HER DEATH SENTENCE BE COMMUTEDA press conference with Pike’s legal team began at 2 p.m. today following Tennessee’s unsuccessful attempt to execute her last night.Attorney Randy Spivey says Pike is alive, but that he has no… pic.twitter.com/MWcF0WCGel— Lindsay (@TheLinzerShow) October 1, 2026You can view the full press conference here.An attorney speaking to TMZ said, “Christa is critically ill but not in a coma as I understand it.”WSMV reported that she is being cared for at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The Tennessee Department of Correction has confirmed only that she was transported to an off-site medical facility after the execution attempt was botched.The failed execution attempt took place late Wednesday night at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution.Pike, 50, was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville.A federal appeals court granted a stay about an hour before the original 10 a.m. start time, but the U.S. Supreme Court lifted it later that day. They attempted the planned execution that evening.Around 8 p.m. Central Time, executioners administered two syringes of pentobarbital under the state’s single-drug protocol.Court filings from her lawyers said she did not lose consciousness, still had a heartbeat, and was audibly “snoring.”Media witnesses described her lifting her head, asking whether the burning and pain in her arm were normal, kicking her feet hard enough to knock off the sheet, and continuing to snore loudly after the curtains were closed.Witnesses were escorted out while she was still breathing.The traditional witness press conference outside was interrupted when ambulances arrived to transport Pike to a hospital.BREAKING: Christa Pike SURVIVES Two Lethal Injections, Witness Press Conference Interrupted by Ambulances (UPDATED)/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i