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A survived execution in Tennessee exposes the grim science of lethal injection

States Newsroom · October 9, 2026

It took Christa Pike nearly a week to regain consciousness after the Tennessee Department of Corrections failed to kill her with two doses of the barbiturate pentobarbital, a drug used to put animals to death and to execute humans by lethal injection in Arizona and other states. She was confused and angry. She…

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A survived execution in Tennessee exposes the grim science of lethal injection

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