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, the lone woman on its death row, after administering two doses of a lethal drug on Wednesday, leaving her alive and taken by ambulance to a hospital. The botched attempt came after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a last-minute appeals court stay to allow the execution, which would have been the state's first of a woman in over 200 years.

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