Tennessee Fails to Execute Christa Pike After Two Lethal Injections

Tennessee Fails to Execute Christa Pike After Two Lethal Injections

Tennessee failed to execute Christa Pike, its only female death row inmate, after she survived two doses of lethal injection drugs on Wednesday. The botched execution, which would have been the state's first of a woman in over 200 years, prompted Governor Bill Lee to halt remaining executions and order an outside review.

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