A physician who was expected to oversee Tennessee's failed execution of Christa Pike on Wednesday was previously involved in another botched lethal injection effort that was halted after prison staff ...

Christa Pike has remained unconscious and on a ventilator at a hospital in the four days since her failed execution in Tennessee, and her prognosis might not be known for days more, one of her lawyers...

In announcing his departure, Strada defended the department's handling of Christa Pike's failed Sept. 30 execution, during which she survived two rounds of lethal injection drugs.