How a Tennessee execution gone wrong connects to Arizona’s capital punishment troubles

States Newsroom · October 2, 2026

Christa Pike, the Tennessee death row prisoner who survived an attempted execution by lethal injection Wednesday night, was still in critical condition as of Thursday afternoon. Hers was the second botched execution in the Volunteer State this year. And there’s a direct line between those executions and problems…

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