new update in Christa Pike case as what the botched execution did to her body comes to light

Two doses, and she was still alive. According to the supplied account, Christa Pike’s attempted execution ended in hospitalization, Tennessee’s prison chief resigned, and executions were halted as investigators confronted questions about ignored medical warnings and a drug that may never have reached her bloodstream. Now, a legal fight over evidence could expose the most disturbing and consequential answ… Continues…

The supplied report describes Tennessee confronting another execution crisis after Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital on September 30. Governor Bill Lee reportedly suspended executions through year’s end pending an independent review, then announced Correction Commissioner Frank Strada’s resignation on October 3. Pike was convicted of killing 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a fellow Job Corps student, more than three decades ago. Her execution would have been Tennessee’s first involving a woman in over 200 years.

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