Blackburn calls to reinstate electric chair after Tennessee death row inmate’s botched lethal injections

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is calling for Tennessee to reinstate the electric chair after a botched lethal injection left convicted murderer Christa Pike alive following two doses of the execution drug. Pike, 50, was set to be executed on Wednesday, but after officials administered two doses of pentobarbital that evening, Pike remained alive and was […]

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