Christa Pike botched execution
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Christa Pike has been steadily making progress in her recovery following her botched execution, but her lawyers are still worried about her health.
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'Accidents happen': What Supreme Court has said about survivors of botched executions
Christa Pike's situation has similarities to a 1947 Supreme Court case.
Since 1982, there have been at least 64 botched executions, the vast majority of which involved lethal injection, according to an analysis by the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. Seven of those execution attempts failed entirely because officials in Tennessee, Idaho, Alabama and Ohio could not properly insert intravenous lines.
The failed execution of Christa Pike Wednesday night in Tennessee wasn’t the first time a lethal injection didn’t go as planned. It wasn’t even the first time this year in the state of Tennessee.
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