Ihnen says this is the first step of a long legal battle, citing previous legal challenges filed before the failed execution.

He says those legal actions warned Tennessee officials of possible complications with an execution. He says now that Pike is awake and communicating, she will able to give attorneys consent on what to do next.

And with those closing remarks, the news conference on the courthouse's steps ends.

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The news conference has now ended, but stick with us as we bring you key updates.

Spivey says he is not going to comment on the medical care that Pike is currently receiving, but refers to her still being shackled to her hospital bed.

"She is shackled at her feet and on her right arm to the bed," he says.

He adds that he particularly noticed the swelling around her arms, describing it as "extraordinary".

"Her hands looked like if you were to blow up a surgical glove."

A member of Pike's legal team, Randy Spivey, says that when Pike woke up on Tuesday, her first question was: "Where am I and who are you?"

Since then, she has asked a number of questions, Spivey says, including about the family of Colleen Slemmer, the woman she murdered three decades ago.

There is still cognitive impairment, he says, but "she is very aware of what they did to her", in regards to the execution attempt.

Pike helped the execution team find a vein, she was kind and polite until she was injected, her lawyers say.

Then she woke up in a hospital with a tube down her throat and people she didn't know.

"We don't know the toll all of this will take" on her mental health, Spivey says, noting how she was "angry and confused".

"What happened to Christa was exactly what the state was warned would happen," he adds.

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Randy Spivey, another attorney for Pike, says it was his team's understanding that she was brain dead on Monday night and life support would be removed the next day.

However, he says in a "shock to everyone", she woke up and began to talk on Tuesday.

He says she has a blood clot in one of her arms, pneumonia and is not able to swallow yet, with both of her arms and hands being "tremendously swollen".

"Christa has a long road to recovery," Spivey says.

He describes Pike as a "survivor", adding she has survived a suicide attempt, child sexual abuse, the rapes of multiple men and now lethal injections.

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Attorney Luke Ihnen says today's hearing is just "the first step of many" to preserve his client Christa Pike's constitutional rights after the "unprecedented botched execution".

He reiterates that his team has, at this point, not asked the state to turn over any evidence from the attempted execution, only preserve it.

"Today's hearing was about transparency, about why Christa, the courts, the media, and the public should not simply take the state's word about what happened last Wednesday," Ihnen says.

He adds: "Their word is shrouded in secrecy, in legal jargon, in attempts to obfuscate and obscure what really happened."

The hearing for the emergency motion filed by Christa Pike's legal team has now ended.

Lawyer's representing Pike are now speaking at a news conference, please stick with us for updates.

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Kayla Epstein
reporting from New York

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We've had a lot of technical back and forth in today's hearing, but here's what you need to know.

• Pike's lawyers secured a legal win today, convincing the judge to order the state to preserve the broadest amount of evidence possible from Pike's botched execution
• This order will include both physical evidence - like IVs, syringes and medical documents - as well as communications and surveillance video surrounding the execution
• The judge said she would issue a written order soon, which would make her decision official. The evidence preservation could help Pike during ongoing legal action
• Pike’s attorneys also received more detailed protocols to request a visit with her while she remains in the hospital
• The state’s attorney also demonstrated just how uncertain Pike’s future remains. He confirmed that there was not currently an order for another execution, but he could not tell the judge whether one wouldn’t hypothetically be issued tomorrow
• The state of Tennessee has currently paused its remaining executions until the end of the year in the wake of Pike’s botched procedure

One of the issues Pike's lawyers raised in court today is the difficulty they have had getting access to visit Pike while she's been in hospital.

The judge, Chancellor l'Ashea Myles, says she will not make a decision today on Pike's lawyers' request to let Pike use the tablet she had used in prison while she's in hospital. Myles asked the state to provide more information on how the tablet works and if it can be used outside the prison.

She also said Pike's lawyers need to communicate with the warden at least two hours ahead of a visitation or communication time, and the warden then has two hours to respond to that request.

Access to Pike should be handled as if she was still in prison, and her being in hospital doesn't mean she should have less access to her attorney, Myles says.

The judge says items from the failed execution - such as drugs, syringes and tubing that are in the state's possession - must be retained "as a primary matter".

"Anything that was in the actual room needs to be preserved and maintained," she says.

She adds this includes recordings of the evening itself and any communications on the events, as well as information on the ability to access veins or "deviation from the protocol".

"Frankly, the state will have no problem doing this because you all are already doing that," she says.

She also asks for any documentation on Pike's psychological condition prior to, during and after 30 September and any other state actors who were called when the decision was made to call ambulatory services.

She advises the state to take "special care" not to misplace or accidentally delete any information that may be pertinent to the litigation.

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Chancellor I'Ashea Myles says she will grant Pike's attorneys the motion to preserve all evidence.

She makes it clear that she's taking a broad definition of what Tennessee authorities have to preserve.

She says she will write and issue her own order, and it will take effect when she has written and signed it, she says.

“Anything that was in the actual room needs to be preserved and maintained," the judge says, including waste, like packaging, inserts, and labels.

"We want all of it," Pike's lawyer Luke Inhen says regarding the evidence from Pike's failed execution, hammering home the central point he has made throughout this hearing.

Not preserving everything would cause harm to Pike, he argues.

He concludes with that, and the judge begins speaking.

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Ayers has just listed some of the evidence in the state's possession, which Pike's legal team is requesting be preserved following her failed execution.

The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) has advised that physical evidence was collected from the execution chamber, and has been logged into a preservation room, Ayers says.

Among the items collected are:

• Log books
• Observation logs
• Medical waste and products
• And readouts from an EKG exam, which monitors electricity in the heart

Ayers also acknowledges there "may be" some equipment that Pike's legal team sought in their motion that might not be in the state's possession. Specifically, Ayers says its his understanding that Pike's IV lines were cut.

He says there may be portions of those IV lines that could have been attached to Pike when she was transported to the hospital.

The state's lawyer, Will Ayres, is now addressing concerns raised by Pike's lawyers around visitation.

Pike's lawyers visited her in hospital yesterday, the state's lawyer notes.

To visit her again, which they have requested to do this afternoon, they will have to get approval from the prison warden.

There are unique concerns in keeping Pike and those around her safe, the state's lawyer adds.

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Will Ayres is called back up by Chancellor I'Ashea Myles.

She asks him if it's correct that he's not in the position to say that a new execution order will not be presented tomorrow?

"I can't answer that question," Ayres says, noting how that is down to the Tennessee Supreme Court.

He says the parties are engaged in a process that governs what evidence will be preserved, and says they are working together to ensure the counsel for Pike is able to get the evidence that they believe they are entitled to.

He says the preservation of physical evidence is required by an order, and is being preserved by TDOC.

The question is, he says, is the evidence being preserved? And under the existing order, he notes, it must be.

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Ihnen now requests that Pike be given phone access to speak with her legal counsel.

He says that the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) "continues to put up roadblocks for not only the providers at the hospital but for the counsel".

"We are frustrated that the information that the state has is repeatedly and deliberately secreted away."

The legal representative adds that Pike is currently "shackled" to her hospital bed and he understands medical staff have asked for these shackles to be removed, but this has been denied by the TDOC.

Luke Inhen, Pike's lawyer, is continuing to argue for the preservation of evidence regarding her failed execution.

He tells the court that ahead of her execution, Pike's team had warned in court filings that she had conditions that could complicate a lethal injection, a method of execution that could cause "significant, excruciating pain".

Prison officials have had issues drawing Pike's blood or finding a vein in the past, which could have complicated the procedure, he notes.

“Based on what we know about Ms Pike's current condition, these allegations in the complaint” certainly seem “related to the botched execution”, Inhen says.

“The state has made no promises that Ms Pike will not be subject to a future execution," Inhen said.

Pike's lawyers say they have made broad requests for retention of evidence from the state, because, "we don't know what they have because they won't tell us".

The court has now moved to the matter of Pike's attempted execution.

Pike's lawyer Luke Inhen is asking the state to preserve evidence - such as IV lines, syringes, and other materials - from the execution attempt on 30 September.

"We have not asked the state to produce anything," he says. "We are asking the state to preserve evidence of Miss Pike's botched execution."

The state lawyer is now moving onto discussion of the motion to preserve evidence of the attempted execution.

Will Ayers says there is no case currently open for there to be any evidence collection for, and Pike's team has not previously asked for any discovery at court appearances.

The judge asks if this is a fair argument given that Pike had "something that was more pressing than discovering in an underlying case".

Ayers says the "rules must be followed".

• For context: The emergency motion to preserve evidence was filed by Pike's legal team and could lay the groundwork for a future lawsuit against the state over how the failed execution was carried out