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‘Horrified... and not surprised at all’ | Tennessee public defender on Christa Pike’s failed execution
Federal defenders say Tennessee’s revised lethal-injection protocol had vague staffing standards after Pike survived two pentobarbital doses and was taken to a hospital.
After the state’s second failed execution of Christa Gail Pike, federal public defenders say systemic failures inside the Tennessee Department of Correction were predictable consequences of the state’s lethal injection protocol.