Christa Pike’s family breaks silence on failed exection after she wakes up and says 7 words
According to Christa Pike’s aunt the family was told she was brain dead and would be taken off life support, but instead she woke up and can even talk now.
Christa Pike’s aunt, Carrie Ross, says relatives were told 50-year-old Christa Pike was brain dead after the botched execution and that she had been taken off the ventilator.
“We got word that she was brain dead and they were taking her off the ventilator,” the sister of Pike’s late mother told the Daily Mail. “They were going to let her go – let her die – at 1 o’clock tomorrow. That was yesterday or a day before.”
Instead, Pike woke up on Tuesday, nearly a week after Tennessee tried to execute her by lethal injection on September 3
The family has been left waiting in the dark
Ross says no one in the family has been able to speak to Pike since she woke up, instead relying on her lawyers, who told them she “knew who she was and where she was.”
This whole week has been a blur,” Ross said, and Pike’s legal team agrees. “On Monday night, it was our understanding that Christa was brain dead and that life support would be removed the next day,” attorney Randy Spivey said at a press conference on Wednesday and added:
“I do not have an explanation for what happened between Monday night and Tuesday morning, but what we do know is Christa has a long road to recovery.”
Pike’s current condition
Pike’slawyers say she woke “against all odds” and can talk, though only a little. She has pneumonia and a blood clot in one arm. She can’t swallow and hasn’t eaten since waking up and remains handcuffed to the hospital bed
Christa Pike
According to Christa Pike’s aunt the family was told she was brain dead and would be taken off life support, but instead she woke up and can even talk now.
Christa Pike’s aunt, Carrie Ross, says relatives were told 50-year-old Christa Pike was brain dead after the botched execution and that she had been taken off the ventilator.
