US: Death row inmate, Christa Pike, hospitalised after surviving two lethal injections

Nigerian Tribune | 01-10-2026 07:39am |

Christa Pike, a 50-year-old woman on death row in Tennessee, was taken to a hospital after an attempt to execute her using lethal injections did not succeed. During the execution, she received two doses of a drug called pentobarbital, but her heart kept beating, so the process was stopped. Her lawyer reported on her condition following the incident.

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