Woman in critical condition after surviving Tennessee execution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Tennessee switched to a one-drug lethal injection protocol using pentobarbital, a powerful barbiturate, in 2024.
47% : She appears to be the first person known to have survived after execution drugs entered her body, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit group in Washington.
36% : While botched lethal injections are not rare, they usually involve difficulties at the first step: setting intravenous lines in the condemned prisoner's body.
36% : Pike, who would have been the first woman executed by Tennessee in more than two centuries, has a blood condition and feared that something would go wrong with lethal injections, her lawyers say.
25% : NEW YORK -- Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike was critically ill and receiving "life-saving medical care" in a Nashville hospital on Thursday hours after she survived a failed execution with two lethal injection attempts, her lawyers said.

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