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Christa Pike Execution Witness Recalls Moment ‘Something’s Going Wrong’
Governor Bill Lee ordered an independent review after Christa Pike remained breathing following two doses of pentobarbital, halting executions statewide.
- Governor Bill Lee halted executions in Tennessee on Wednesday after 50-year-old inmate Christa Pike remained breathing and audibly snoring following two separate doses of pentobarbital.
- Botched executions have faced scrutiny over the past decade as drug shortages led states to alter formulas or procure drugs from questionable sources; lethal injections remain the most common capital punishment method in 27 states.
- Victim's mother, May Martinez, attended Wednesday's execution attempt and told NBC News it "was a mess"; Colleen Slemmer, a 19-year-old from Florida, was murdered by Pike and her then-boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp.
- APReporter Michael Graczyk, who covered nearly 500 executions during 46 years with The Associated Press, said the Tennessee anomaly had never occurred in Texas: "That has never happened here."
- Governor Lee ordered an independent review of state procedures following the failure; Graczyk noted "all the emphasis is on the inmate in Tennessee," while victims remain "the forgotten folks.
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SICThe woman - who had been on death row for more than 30 years - survived two lethal injections. She had been sentenced to this maximum sentence since 1996, after a brutal murder of a colleague when she was 18 years old.
·Lisboa, Portugal
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Christa Pike's Attempted Execution Was Preceded by a Moment of Pause – a Direct Call From an Advisor
Those who watched Christa Pike's failed execution attempt from close range are now telling what happened in the situation.
·Helsinki, Finland
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The Age'Haven't seen anything like it,' witness says on Pike's failed execution
Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder, media witnesses said, after the lethal injection was halted for hours as courts considered a last-minute appeal of what would have been the state’s first execution of a woman in at least 200 years.
·North Sydney, Australia
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