
Christa Pike’s botched execution highlights volatile state of U.S. death penalty
After Tennessee unsuccessfully attempted to execute Christa Pike by lethal injection on Wednesday, the state’s governor announced that executions there would be halted as part of an investigation into what happened.
In fact, Tennessee took two very different approaches to the death penalty this week. First, the state pushed to carry out an execution. When this failed, the country became a place where executions would not take place for the time being.
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