NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. A death penalty expert said it was an unprecedented failure.
Pike was alive and loudly snoring after the attempted lethal injection and taken by ambulance from the prison, her attorneys said.
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