Christa Pike botched execution
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UN slams TN botched execution as abhorrent and cruel
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The legal battle over a failed execution in Tennessee could be headed back to court. Attorneys for Christa Pike have filed an emergency motion to preserve evidence from the lethal injection failure.
Democratic nominee Jerri Green called for Commissioner Frank Strada's resignation, while the other three candidates said they wouldn't keep him.
THE BOTCHED execution of Christa Pike has saved death row killer Gary Wayne Sutton weeks before his own lethal injection. Pike, 50, is under guard in hospital and remains critically ill after
With capital punishment on the wane, executions have become the purview of a shrinking number of places.