Christa Pike was expected to die on Wednesday, September 30.
Instead, after Tennessee officials administered two rounds of lethal injection, she remained alive.
The death-row inmate was eventually rushed from Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to a hospital, where her attorneys said she was receiving “life-saving measures.”
The extraordinary outcome has raised serious questions about what happened inside the execution chamber — and how a lethal injection involving pentobarbital can fail to work as expected…. Continue Reading ⬇️
