Christa Pike is in critical condition after Tennessee’s botched execution attempt

NASHVILLE — US death row inmate Christa Pike was in critical condition Thursday and receiving “lifesaving care” at a hospital, her lawyers said, a day after a failed attempt to execute her pushed Tennessee’s governor to halt further executions this year and order an independent review.Pike, 50, who was sentenced to death for a 1995 murder, was taken to a hospital Wednesday night after surviving a double dose of the lethal drug Tennessee uses to execute prisoners."Christa