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Christa Pike has remained unconscious and on a ventilator at a hospital in the four days since her failed execution<\/a> in Tennessee, and her prognosis might not be known for days more, one of her lawyers said Sunday.<\/p>\n Little has been released about Pike’s condition since Wednesday night’s execution attempt. She has since remained hospitalized<\/a> under guard as doctors try to get the massive dose of the barbiturate pentobarbital out of her system.<\/p>\n When asked whether she ever regained consciousness after the execution attempt, Assistant Federal Defender Stephen Ferrell, Pike\u2019s lawyer, said on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d: \u201cNot that I am aware of.\u201d<\/p>\n Pike, now 50, was 18 when she and her boyfriend tortured and killed<\/a> a classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in a jealous rage in 1995. She became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row. <\/p>\n Tennessee prison officials gave Pike two doses of the lethal injection drug on Wednesday night. The pentobarbital didn’t kill her, but her lawyers said her arms were burned and blistered from the caustic drugs.<\/p>\n Pike gave someone her medical power of attorney and that person is protecting her privacy, Ferrell said.<\/p>\n \u201cI’m not sure what all they may have told that person,\u201d Ferrell said.<\/p>\n Pike’s attorneys have not identified who is making Pike’s medical decisions. They said they may not know for several more days whether or not she can recover.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t know right now, and we may never know what sort of torture she endured during that process, where her consciousness was, what physical pain there was \u2014 what mental torture she went through,\u201d Ferrell said.<\/p>\n A spokeswoman for Pike’s defense team said in a statement early Sunday that \u201cwe appreciate all respect for Christa\u2019s rightful privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n Pike’s execution was delayed for more than eight hours Wednesday as the U.S. Supreme Court considered, and ultimately overturned, a federal appeals court ruling to halt her lethal injection so judges could thoroughly review whether the jury that sentenced her to death should have considered sexual abuse she said she suffered as a child.<\/p>\n Her attorneys asked a court Friday to order Tennessee prison officials to preserve any written records, communication, images or video from the execution.<\/p>\n Tennessee, like many other states with capital punishment, keeps many details about executions secret from the people involved to details about how the drugs are manufactured or obtained or any tests done on their quality.<\/p>\n \u201cThe state of Tennessee has got to start telling its people exactly what it is doing so that in the democratic process, the people of Tennessee can decide if that\u2019s what they want to be done in their name,\u201d Ferrell told CNN.<\/p>\n This was the second time<\/a> this year Tennessee has not been able to execute a prisoner who was seemingly moments away from death. In May, Tennessee stopped the execution of Tony Carruthers<\/a> after staff placed an IV into his right arm but couldn\u2019t get a secondary IV line.<\/p>\n Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Correction Frank Strada announced Saturday he was resigning.<\/p>\n Gov. Bill Lee has ordered an independent investigation into the state’s capital punishment system conducted by former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton. He also reviewed Tennessee’s execution procedures<\/a> after Lee called off a different execution in 2022 and found the state did not comply with its own lethal injection process.<\/p>\n Prison officials and the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office have said little since Pike was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n If Pike recovers, it is unclear what will happen in her death penalty case. Pike’s lawyers have asked the governor to commute her punishment to a life sentence.<\/p>\n