ecution was allowed to move forward after the Supreme Court denied a last-minute effort to halt it. She was set to be the first woman executed in the state since 1820.

It's still unclear what will happen with Pike moving forward.

Pike's attorneys attended an emergency hearing in Davidson County court on Wednesday, during which they requested and were granted a decision saying Tennessee's correctional department must preserve records and other evidence of her failed lethal injection.

Her legal team has renewed its calls for Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to commute Pike's death sentence, pushing him to change the sentence to life in prison without parole so the state can't attempt to execute Pike a second time. This is the usual course of action after an inmate survives botched execution proceedings, her attorneys said.

However, while others have survived botched procedures before, Pike is the only known inmate in the United States' modern death penalty era to remain alive after actually receiving lethal chemicals.

 The state has made no promises that Ms. Pike will not be subject to a future execution,  Ihnen, one of Pike's attorneys, said in court on Wednesday.