NJ Man Who Plotted Christa Pike Jailbreak Speaks Out After Botched Execution: Report

Donald Kohut Jr. of Flemington, convicted in 2012 for his role in a failed plot to break death row inmate Christa Pike out of a Tennessee prison, is now speaking out after Pike’s execution last week went badly wrong. Pike, convicted of a brutal 1995 murder, received two doses of pentobarbital but remained alive more than two hours past when she was expected to die, prompting officials to transfer her to a hospital where she remained unconscious as of Tuesday.