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Christa Pike’s lawyer says ‘she’s alive’ following a botched execution attempt

The US president is very rarely able to read the room, it seems.

The Tennessee death row inmate is still alive after two rounds of lethal injection drugs during her planned execution on Wednesday evening

A double murderer has had his execution postponed

It's alleged the substitute teacher shared her 'personal education goals' with students over the last school year

She was hospitalised after her lethal injection failed to execute her

She had expected to receive justice after 30 years

The mother of the woman Pike killed called Pike's botched execution 'a mess'

Her legal team filed an emergency motion to halt the execution

She's not the first death row inmate to have the lethal injection not work

Pike was scheduled to die via lethal injection today

Linda Patrik was married to Unabomber Ted Kaczynski's brother and grew suspicious of her brother-in-law

The US Supreme Court has ruled that Pike's execution may go ahead

Dakota Harper, 21, and Felicity Eatmon, 22, were arrested on Tuesday (29 September)

The United States' infamous death row has been in the headlines this week

Christa Pike was due to be executed via lethal injection on 30 September in Tennessee

She murdered at 18 but will finally meet the ultimate punishment at 50-years-old.

Douglas Stewart Carter spent decades on death row, before being released

Pike was scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Wednesday before the major update

Teen killer Christa Pike, now 50, is convicted of killing a classmate in 1995