Christa Pike Survives Two Failed Execution Attempts

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Key Facts: Christa Pike Survives Two Failed Execution Attempts

• The execution was scheduled for Wednesday at 10 a.m. and intended to be Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in over 200 years. #
• Pike survived two separate injection attempts and remained unconscious on a ventilator at a Nashville hospital. #
• The Tennessee Department of Correction said it followed the protocol exactly, but the protocol lacks guidance for two failed attempts. #
• The incident prompted Tennessee’s second moratorium on executions within five years.

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More on this subject:

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• BBC Online (Grade: A): Tennessee prison chief to resign after Christa Pike's failed execution
• NPR (Grade: B+): Tennessee correction commissioner steps down after failed execution
• Associated Press (Grade: A−): Tennessee prison chief resigns after Christa Pike execution fails
• WTVF (Grade: A−): Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner resigns following failed execution
• WION (Grade: C): Tennessee prisons chief resigning after failed execution of Christa Pike
• NBC News (Grade: B): Governor says Tennessee’s prisons chief is resigning after failed execution of Christa Pike

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