find a good vein for her IV.

 She was kind and polite as they worked for an hour, stabbing her arm with needle after needle, and then she felt the burn of the pentobarbital, and then she woke up in a hospital surrounded by people she didn't know with a tube down her throat,  he said.

He added that  All of this was foreseeable and foreseen. 

 What happened to Christa is exactly what the state was warned would happen,  Spivey continued. Pike's legal team had fought execution by lethal injection, citing venous issues Pike has that would likely cause issues in a lethal injection.

The news conference followed a status hearing in Tennessee court Wednesday, during which Chancellor I'Ashea L. Myles ruled that the state must preserve any relevant evidence in connection with the failed execution.

 Today's hearing was just a first step of many to preserve and enforce Christa's constitutional rights after this unprecedented botched execution,  one of the attorneys, Luke Ihnen, said during a news conference after court Wednesday.

 As I said repeatedly, we have not asked the state to turn over any evidence at this point,  he continued.  Only demanding that they preserve it so that her lawyers, experts, and the public can learn what really happened Wednesday night. 

During court, Ihnen argued that  The state has made no promises that Miss Pike will not be subject to our future execution, and the evidence that we are seeking to preserve now is relevant for any future challenge that she makes. 

Myles ultimately ruled in favor of Pike's team, stating that Tennessee must preserve any and all relevant evidence, including but not limited to: IV lines and needles, medical supplies and records, any drugs used with anything from the manufacturer, photographs, video recordings, handwritten notes, checklists and any witness accounts.

 The state will have no problem doing this because you all are already doing that,  Myles said. She said if anything has already been discarded, the state must work to  claw back that information,  and ensure going forward that no further information is discarded or destroyed.

Additionally, Ihnen asked Myles to order that the Tennessee Department of Corrections give their team 48-hours notice before Pike is moved, to remove her shackles while she is in a hospital bed and to give her access to a phone or a tablet.

He also asked that the legal team receive regular visits with Pike, noting they had to wait in the lobby of the hospital for two-and-a-half hours when they tried to see her on Tuesday.

Pike was set to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. She has been on death row for more than 30 years for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. It remains unclear what her future could look like and whether the state will attempt to execute her again.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee insisted in the hours after the Sept. 30 execution attempt that the team - whose members' identities are shrouded in secrecy - followed the state's protocol well. But days later, he announced that the state's top prison official, Frank Strada, would be stepping down this month.

In a statement, Strada said he believed the state Department of Correction had carried out its responsibilities  in accordance with the established protocol.  But stepping aside, he added, was in the  best interest of Tennesseans as the independent review moves forward. 

Lee also ordered an independent review of the failed execution and paused all executions in the state for the rest of the year.

Pike's was the second failed lethal injection in the state this year. Tony Carruthers' execution in May was stopped after the state Department of Corrections struggled to find a vein to set a backup injection line.