911 call reveals confusion in Christa Pike execution attempt

always for keeping us updated. As we continue here, you guys, let's talk about this story. Newly released 911 audio nearly two weeks after Tennessee failed to execute Krista Pike is revealing the confusion between dispatchers and prison officials. 911 recordings reveal that there was a half hour delay in getting help to inmate Krista Pike after Tennessee's failed execution attempt last month. Dispatchers questioned whether the emergency was actually real. Take a listen. A medical call for service at the Riverbend prison saying that they carried out the execution, the subject didn't pass away, and they need an ambulance because she's not breathing normally. Well, we don't have any gender and we just know it's a 50-year-old person. We are trying to find out if that is an actual thing that is happening and we need to send an ambulance and or if you need police assistance or if this is someone that is just basically prank calling or like swatting us her supervisors here at the DEC we have been informed that it is a false call there is no medical assistance needed at Riverbend prison we got a call about a failed execution at your facility and we just call in to verify um i'm being told that nobody from our facility called you so uh there's not really anything to speak of at the moment What's going on is my client, Christabel Pike, is undergoing a state execution. She has completed the stages of the protocol. And lastly, we need from the attorneys who's present, she's still alive and breathing and needs immediate life-saving care. The central control just called us and advised that it is actually real, so we're going to have FBI intervention. All right, so you could hear a lot of the back-and-forth and confusion there. That initial call came in at 8:40 in the evening of September 30th, about an hour after the attempted lethal injection started. But the caller was unable to provide a code to help verify the request's legitimacy. And you can hear the dispatcher was concerned if it was a prank call or someone was swatting them. It wasn't until about 30 minutes later that prison officials confirmed it was a real request and started letting responders through the gates. Krista Pike survived two doses of lethal injection drugs, and that was when Tennessee was executing her or trying to execute her for the 1995 murder of her classmate. She at one point required a ventilator before regaining consciousness and beginning to walk. She's since returned to prison. She's been released from the hospital. As the state investigates what happened here, Pike's attorneys are also asking the state to commute her sentence to life without parole. Additionally, the state of Tennessee has canceled its remaining executions for the year.