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…