Nashville authorities have released recordings and a transcript of 911 calls made during the failed execution of Christa Pike on Sept. 30.
Metro Nashville's Emergency Communications Center released the recordings Oct. 12 in response to a records request from The Tennessean.
About 30 minutes after the first 911 call at 8:40 p.m., emergency vehicles were seen arriving at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. Pike, who survived two rounds of lethal injection chemicals, was taken to the hospital for treatment.
Pike remains alive. She was released from the hospital and taken to the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, a state women's prison, on Oct. 11.
The Tennessean received the transcript of the first 911 call for Pike. The transcript redacts
the name and identifying information about the caller.
The Tennessean received recordings of two other incoming 911 calls that night, one from the Tennessee Department of Correction and another from one of Pike's attorneys.
The Tennessean also received recordings of six outgoing calls from dispatch to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Nashville Fire Department, Metro Nashville Police Department and TDOC. The paper also received a recording of radio traffic from the night.
The Emergency Communications Center provided only a redacted transcript of the first call because the city's legal department determined the call was exempt from public disclosure. Tennessee's public records law exempts many records related to executions.
The transcript of the first call shows the caller told the 911 dispatcher that Pike was unconscious and her breathing was "very labored, and slow." The caller said Pike was unconscious.
Ambulances arrived at Riverbend at about 9:10 p.m.
This story will be updated.
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