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  "id": 16147534,
  "title": "‘Either blood or blown’: graphic details of botched US execution revealed",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/either-blood-or-blown-graphic-details-of-botched-us-execution-revealed",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T03:00:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3371858/either-blood-or-blown-graphic-account-botched-us-execution"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike’s arms before her attempted execution and warned that some of her veins may have ruptured, or “blown”, before she was injected with the lethal drug, her lawyer wrote in a court document filed Thursday. The IV team went through about 10 needles and tried several IV sites on both arms, lawyer Randy…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}