How a Tennessee execution gone wrong connects to Arizona's capital punishment troubles
A botched execution in Tennessee has drawn comparisons to previous capital punishment issues in Arizona, as the prisoner remains in critical condition.
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 Arizona had carrying out death sentences in […]
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