Summary

Christa Pike's failed execution in September has raised fresh questions about Tennessee's lethal injection execution protocol, which is in its fourth iteration in the past two decades. Pike's was the second botched execution by Tennessee this year. She had been sentenced to death for her role in the 1995 torture and murder of her 19-year-old classmate, Colleen Slemmer.

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