Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is still alive after 2 lethal injections, according to her lawyer

At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said executioners had “injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring,” her lawyers said.

Authorities appeared to give Pike two doses of pentobarbital, but she was still alive more than 40 minutes after the last dose. Officials then escorted media witnesses out of the area, and the Tennessee Department of Corrections said it was unable to immediately provide information about what happened.

The attempted execution comes after the Supreme Court vacated a last-minute stay that had temporarily spared Pike from becoming the first woman executed in Tennessee since the early 1800s