Will Tennessee try to execute Christa Pike again? Experts weigh in

Only a week after Christa Pike survived a failed execution, her attorneys appeared in a Nashville courthouse to take the first steps in what will likely be a protracted legal battle to prevent a second attempt to put her to death. Though Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee postponed executions while officials conduct an independent review of her botched lethal injection, Pike’s attorneys are already preparing for state officials to move forward. “The state has made no promises that Ms. Pike will not be subject to a future execution,” Pike’s attorney Luke Ihnen said in court last Wednesday, as her team argued for the preservation of evidence from the failed execution, which saw Pike survive two ostensibly fatal doses of pentobarbital.