Riley Gaines predicts Christa Pike will sue Tennessee after surviving a failed execution. In an X post on October 7, 2026, Gaines speculated, without evidence, that Pike would sue Tennessee, claiming her rights were violated. Stating her opinion, she wrote,"Guarantee she sues the state with the basis being Tennessee violated her rights by failing to kill her."Gaines' post is an opinion and prediction; no lawsuit or legal claim has been filed or adjudicated. Furthermore, she has no role in the case.The post shared a message from Eric Daugherty, who wrote that Pike was alive and awake and that her attorneys wanted the governor to commute her death sentence. The Guardian reported on October 7, 2026, that Pike's lawyers had instead asked a judge to preserve evidence from the attempted execution.Christa Pike execution attempt: what her lawyers say happenedChrista Pike, 50, was taken to a hospital unconscious but alive after Tennessee tried to execute her on September 30, 2026, People reported on October 8. Officials gave two rounds of pentobarbital at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.According to the Guardian on October 7, 2026, witnesses heard her breathing raggedly after the first injection. She reportedly lifted her head from the gurney to say her arms were burning.Her lawyer Randy Spivey called the process "cruel and torturous." He counted seven needles in her left arm and said one looked bent when it was pulled out. Her team had warned before the execution that officials might struggle to find veins. The state still pushed ahead, and the US Supreme Court let it proceed.Christa Pike spent several days on a ventilator, People reported. Her lawyers describe her as the only known person in US history to survive lethal injection drugs during an execution.Fox News @FoxNewsLINKBREAKING: Christa Pike is awake but remains cognitively confused following her failed execution, according to her attorney Randy Spivey.He says he was told her first words when she gained consciousness were, "Where am I and who are you?"Spivey says Pike wants to know what happened and has asked about several people, including members of her legal team and the victim's family."I think she is angry and confused about everything right now," Spivey says.Pike's recovery, the evidence order and Tennessee's responseThe Guardian reported that Christa Pike remains hospitalized with pneumonia and a blood clot. She cannot move either of her badly injured arms, and it is unclear what function she will regain, Spivey said. He described her as "angry and confused about everything right now."Pike's lawyers added that she is shackled to her bed by her feet and right arm, despite requests from medical staff to remove the restraints.At a Nashville hearing on October 7, Judge I'Ashea Myles ordered the state to preserve "anything that was in the actual room" during the attempt. Pike's team accused officials of "secreting away" evidence.Attorney Luke Ihnen said the items could matter to later challenges, since the state has made no promise that she will not face another execution. Assistant Attorney General John Ayers declined to say whether Tennessee would seek one, People reported.Governor Bill Lee has suspended executions for the rest of 2026 while a third party reviews procedures, People reported. Emory University anesthesiologist Joel Zivot told the outlet it is too early to offer a prognosis.Christa Pike was 18 when she and her 17-year-old boyfriend killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a classmate at Knoxville Job Corps, in 1995, The Guardian reported. Prosecutors said she feared Slemmer was trying to take the boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp. Pike has never denied her involvement and has been on death row since 1996, People noted.