Chaos in the death chamber: Timeline of Christa Pike's botched execution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : " Amanda Lee Myers is a senior crime and courts reporter who covers the death penalty, cold cases and breaking news for USA TODAY.
41% : "The incompetence of the Tennessee DOC sets the bar at the lowest level," Abraham Bonowitz, co-founder of Death Penalty Action, said in a statement.
39% : The state's execution protocol has no guidance for what happens when two doses fail, something that hasn't happened in the history of lethal injections in the U.S., according to experts and a USA TODAY review of previous botched executions.
39% : Warden Kenneth Nelsen asked Pike if she had any last words before her lethal injection.
37% : Pike's failed execution, Tennessee's second in just four months, is raising questions about the state's ability to carry out the death penalty and drawing increased scrutiny to the constitutionality of the method nationwide.
35% : "Christa has endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty," Randy Spivey, one of Pike's attorneys, said during a news conference.
21% : He called on Lee to commute Pike's death sentence immediately.

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