Christa Pike woke up: With a 7% botch rate, lethal injection is an engineering disaster

On the evening of Sept. 30, Tennessee gave Christa Pike a dose of pentobarbital, then a backup dose. She did not die. Witnesses heard her breathing behind the curtain for close to an hour, and she left the prison in an ambulance instead of a hearse. A week later, her lawyers say she is conscious […]

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