Several new details about Tennessee’s recent executions came to light this week, including the price of the drugs and issues with executions leading up to Christa Pike’s catastrophic failed one.
After Christa Pike’s failed execution, some Americans think Tennessee should try again
A new poll shows one-third of Americans support a second execution attempt.
911 recordings show why ambulance was delayed after Pike’s failed execution
After the second round of lethal drugs failed to kill Christa Pike, she lay on a gurney for an hour an a half before an ambulance took her to a hospital. Newly released recordings from Nashville’s emergency dispatch reveal why.
Drugs in jars, bags of cash: Tennessee ignored warnings from Arizona’s botched executions
Christa Pike’s botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong on Frank Strada’s watch. Before he took charge of Tennessee’s prisons, Strada oversaw three botched executions in Arizona.
Attorneys, doctors, nurses and lawmakers asked for a death penalty moratorium before Pike’s failed execution
In the year and a half leading up to Christa Pike’s failed execution, warnings about the state’s lethal injection protocol and its weaknesses piled up.
Tennessee again taps former U.S. Attorney to review execution protocol
Gov. Bill Lee is again tapping former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton to lead an investigation into Tennessee’s execution protocols.
Tennessee correction commissioner steps down after failed execution
The architect of Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocols is stepping down as leader of the Department of Correction after a second failed execution this year.
Pike’s team says they predicted complications with her execution
Christa Pike’s legal team argued this summer that her health conditions could make her execution painful and difficult.
Tennessee Democrats call on the GOP to fix state executions
Christa Pike’s botched execution has sparked calls to reform the state’s execution protocols.
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