A prisoner in Tennessee remains alive but critically ill after a botched execution attempt, prompting outrage and calls for a halt to the U.S. death penalty. Authorities halted the procedure midway through the lethal injection process, leaving the inmate receiving emergency medical treatment despite being administered a lethal dose of sedative. Legal, medical, and faith leaders have condemned the incident as brutally flawed, adding to a growing pattern of failed executions in states with capital punishment. The case marks the first known survival of a prisoner given a massive, normally fatal dose of pentobarbital during an execution attempt.
Pike alive but in critical condition as experts call ordeal that unfolded in Tennessee Wednesday ‘unimaginably barbaric’Top lawyers, doctors and members of the faith community are calling for a moratorium on the US death penalty after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike left the prisoner alive but in critical condition and receiving life-saving medical care.The recent spate of harrowingly botched executions across US death penalty states reached a new low late on Wednesday when Tennessee’s governor Bill Lee called off the procedure after Pike had been injected with two full syringes of pentobarbital. She is the only person to have survived being administered 5mg of the sedative – a massive dose that under normal circumstances is considered fatal. Continue reading...
