Christa Pike's Execution Team Ran Out of Instructions After This

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Christa Pike's lawyers went to Davidson County Chancery Court on October 2, 2026, asking a judge to order the Tennessee Department of Correction to preserve the catheters, tubing, needles and logs from the execution room at Riverbend. Their argument: the state knows a lawsuit is coming and has a duty to keep the evidence before it is altered, tested, discarded or lost. The same department held that room for two days before the motion was filed, and it says the protocol was followed to the letter. Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital on September 30, and by October 6 her lawyers said she was awake and speaking. The state's own statement says the protocol allowed nothing more after the…