Death row inmate spared after Christa Pike’s botched execution killed friend moments after bailing him out

The botched execution of Christa Pike gave another death row inmate — who released a friend from prison just to kill him and then his sister in 1992 — several more weeks to live before his tryst with death.

After Pike failed to die after being given two doses of lethal drugs last week, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee suspended all remaining executions scheduled before the end of the year – which was just one.

Convicted killer Gary Wayne Sutton was due to be executed on December 3, but he will now escape death, at least for a little longer.

Sutton has been on death row since he was convicted of the February 1992 murders of his siblings Tommy Griffin and Connie Branam in two separate trials.

Sutton, his uncle James Dellinger and Griffin were out for a night of debauched drinking on Feb. 21, which turned sour when a fight broke out, according to court records obtained by Fox News.

Griffin was left shirtless and scratched on the side of the road and was arrested by cops who took him to jail for public drunkenness, records show.

Sutton and Dellinger bailed him out and about a half hour later, witnesses reported hearing three gunshots near where Griffin was later found dead with a shotgun blast to the head, records show.

Branam then picked up her brother with Sutton and Dellinger the next day at the bar they had attended the night before, prosecutors said.

Shortly afterward, her badly burned body was found in a charred car, according to court records.

Dellinger, who was a co-defendant with Sutton, was sentenced to death, but died of natural causes on death row before he could be executed.

Sutton – who has maintained his innocence – does not have a new execution date in the new year, and it is unclear when the state of Tennessee will resume executions.