Christa Pike execution fails: What next when a lethal injection is botched?
Al Jazeera · 1 Oct 2026

Christa Pike execution fails: What next when a lethal injection is botched?

The only woman on Tennessee ‘death row’ is in hospital after two injections failed to kill her. Two doses of a lethal injection drug have failed to kill Christa Gail Pike, a 50-year-old woman who was due to be executed on Wednesday. Pike was taken to hospital after it was found that her heart was st


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