What happened in failed execution of Christa Pike - and what next?
Convicted murderer Christa Pike is receiving medical care after a failed execution attempt in Tennessee involving two doses of pentobarbital. The incident has sparked legal and ethical debates regarding the efficacy and humaneness of current lethal injection protocols.
Why it matters
The failure of a state-sanctioned execution raises critical questions about the death penalty, medical ethics, and constitutional protections against cruel punishment.
Figure caption, What we know after Christa Pike survived two lethal injections
US convicted murderer Christa Pike is in hospital and being given "life-saving measures" after Tennessee authorities failed in their attempt to execute her by lethal injection.
The case of Pike, whose attempted execution had already been the subject of a high-profile legal battle, has raised a number of questions.
These include what went went wrong, what happens next, and - for opponents of the death penalty - fresh concerns around the suffering of an inmate when an execution does not go to plan.
Pike, 50, was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, an attack that was perpetrated alongside her then-boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp.
She was scheduled to be put to death on Wednesday evening, local time. The injections were allowed by the US Supreme Court at the eleventh hour after the legal battle.
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