Emergency calls from botched Christa Pike execution released
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Since 1982, there have been at least 64 botched executions, the vast majority of which involved lethal injection, according to an analysis by the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. Seven of those execution attempts failed entirely because officials in Tennessee, Idaho, Alabama and Ohio could not properly insert intravenous lines.
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'Accidents happen': What Supreme Court has said about survivors of botched executions
Christa Pike's situation has similarities to a 1947 Supreme Court case.
The failed execution of Christa Pike Wednesday night in Tennessee wasn’t the first time a lethal injection didn’t go as planned. It wasn’t even the first time this year in the state of Tennessee.
Roughly 3% of all US executions in the century between 1890 and 2010 were botched, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Christa Pike is on death row in Tennessee for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. Pike was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday night, but she was still alive after receiving two doses of a lethal injection.
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