Christa Pike’s Crime and Botched Execution

Tennessee twice administered a lethal dose of pentobarbital to Christa Pike, but she survived and regained consciousness a week later. State officials are now investigating what happened inside the execution chamber, her lawyers are seeking to have her death sentence replaced with life imprisonment, and a larger question remains unresolved: after carrying out its entire execution protocol and failing to kill a prisoner, can the state legally try again?

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