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A week after Tennessee's attempted execution of convicted killer Christa Pike went horribly wrong, she remains hospitalized, conscious, and described by her lawyers as 'angry and confused' while still shackled to her hospital bed. A judge ordered the state to preserve evidence from the failed procedure, and Wednesday's hearing was framed by her attorneys as a matter of transparency. It also emerged that Tennessee's former prisons chief, who stepped down after the incident, had previously overseen botched executions in Arizona, raising further questions about the protocols used nationwide. The fallout extended beyond Tennessee: in Texas, lawyers for death row inmate Jamaal Howard asked a judge to pause his execution in light of Pike's botched injection, but the request was denied and Texas proceeded with the first US execution since the Tennessee incident. The case has intensified scrutiny of lethal injection protocols across multiple states and raised questions about whether Tennessee will attempt to execute Pike again.