Christa Pike Survives Two Lethal Injection Doses in Tennessee

Christa Pike Survives Two Lethal Injection Doses in Tennessee

Tennessee failed to execute Christa Pike, its lone female death row inmate, after she remained alive following two doses of lethal injection drugs on Wednesday. Governor Bill Lee subsequently halted the state's remaining executions for the year following the unprecedented botched procedure, which came after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution of the woman convicted in a 1995 murder.

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