Lawyers warned Christa Pike’s veins were compromised before botched execution

Lawyers for Christa Pike warned months before Tennessee attempted to execute her that her medical conditions and difficult-to-access veins could make lethal injection especially dangerous, arguing that the state’s execution protocol risked subjecting her to excruciating pain. Pike, 50, survived two doses of pentobarbital during a Sept. 30 execution attempt and was taken to a […]

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