A botched lethal injection left a Tennessee death row inmate alive and in critical condition after receiving two doses of pentobarbital during an execution attempt. Authorities intended to carry out the sentence for a 1995 murder conviction, but the procedure failed, raising questions about execution protocols. Legal experts are now examining the case, which involves a decades-old crime described as particularly brutal. The inmate’s attorneys are monitoring her condition as officials review what went wrong.
Tennessee officials failed to carry out the lethal injection of death row inmate Christa Pike on Wednesday. Her attorneys say she is alive and in critical condition after being given two separate doses of pentobarbital meant to kill her. Pike was sentenced to death for the gruesome murder of her classmate in 1995. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham School of Law.
