The lone woman on Tennessee’s death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.

At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said “executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals” and Christa Pike was “still alive and snoring,” her lawyers said in a federal court filing.

They said Pike “has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat” and that curtains to the death chamber “have gone down twice.”

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    2 days ago

    I also dislike gas for executions because it makes it too easy, clean, and scalable for the state. Governments can’t make a room that just suddenly hangs everyone in it when a button is pressed.

    Yeah…there is also some historical precedent you usually don’t want to be associated with…