They panicked and were scared to call for medical assistance. Newly released emergency call recordings have laid bare thirty minutes of utter bureaucratic chaos and internal paralysis inside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution following the botched execution of Christa Pike. At 8:40 PM on September 30th, after two massive doses of pentobarbital failed to kill the 50-year-old death row inmate, an official near the chamber called emergency dispatch stating, "We’ve administered 10 grams of pentobarbital. The person is not yet deceased... and we’re calling for an ambulance." However, because the caller did not verify themselves with an official code, first responders treated the call as a suspected hoax, a fatal miscommunication compounded when the prison's central command contacted dispatch at 9:07 PM insisting they had made no such request. It was not until 9:11 PM, more than half an hour after the initial plea for help, that prison officials finally confirmed the crisis was genuine and permitted paramedics through the security gates, with responding medics later describing the scene as utterly chaotic as Pike was rushed to hospital. Though Pike has since made a surprising recovery and been discharged back into state custody, the damning audio has plunged Tennessee’s capital punishment system into uncharted legal territory, triggering the resignation of the corrections commissioner and prompting Governor Bill Lee to halt all state executions pending a full investigation; as the state weighs whether to pursue an unprecedented second attempt, these emergency tapes prove Tennessee's capital system didn't just botch a procedure, it lost complete institutional control. #christapike #Tennessee #christapikeexecution - @offenceregister