911 Audio Shows 31-Minute Delay After Christa Pike's Failed Execution

1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 13

Dispatch recordings show Nashville emergency operators treated early 911 reports of Christa Pike’s botched Sept. 30 execution as a possible prank, slowing the medical response at Riverbend prison.
An initial call came in around 8:40 p.m., but the caller could not provide a verification code; by 9:03 p.m. dispatchers were told the report was false and canceled assistance.
Kelly Gleason, Pike’s attorney, called again at about 9:08 p.m. saying Pike was still alive and needed immediate care, while prison staff separately told dispatch nobody from the facility had made the call.
First responders were finally cleared through the gate at 9:11 p.m., and Pike was in an ambulance to a hospital by 9:34 p.m. after two pentobarbital doses failed to kill her.
Pike, sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, later woke after six days on a ventilator; Gov. Bill Lee has since paused Tennessee executions pending review.