A survived execution exposes the grim science of lethal injection

A local news story from Florida, reported by Florida Phoenix.

Local News · Florida · October 10, 2026

From Florida Phoenix

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.

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