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Christa Pike’s attorneys say botched execution was “cruel,” “torturous” and “predictable”

Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike, who survived the state’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection Wednesday night, are calling for her sentence to be commuted after she endured what they said was a “cruel,” “torturous,” and “predictable” botched execution.    “The state of Tennessee has shown us again that they are…

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Christa Pike surviving her execution was “unparalleled.” But it wasn’t the first botched lethal injection.

Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, received two doses of a lethal drug in a Nashville execution chamber Wednesday night. But she didn’t die.  Although her survival was “unparalleled,” as one expert said, it was the latest example of a botched execution attempt involving lethal injections in Tennessee and elsewhere around the…

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