Tennessee execution attempt fails after death row inmate survives injection
A death row inmate in the US state of Tennessee survived an execution attempt after officials administered a lethal injection. Read More: Tennessee execution halted after apparent failure According to international news agencies, Christa Pike was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday night for killing a classmate nearly three decades ago. Prison officials said Pike […]
Christa Pike, a 50-year-old death row inmate in Tennessee, survived an execution attempt after officials administered two doses of pentobarbital. According to her attorneys, Pike was alive and loudly snoring after the attempted lethal injection and was taken by ambulance from the prison to a hospital.
Pike was scheduled to be executed for the 1995 murder of a 19-year-old classmate, Colleen Slemmer, which she committed at the age of 18. The execution attempt was halted after the two doses of pentobarbital failed to cause her death.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has ordered a comprehensive review of the incident and has halted the remaining scheduled execution for the rest of the year. The UN rights chief, Volker Turk, has urged the state not to make another attempt to execute Pike, citing concerns about the death penalty and prolonged suffering.
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