After Christa Pike Survived Lethal Injection, Tennessee Leaders Consider Other Execution Methods

The 50-year-old convicted murderer remained alive after receiving two doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30 and has been hospitalized since ...

Lethal injections: What experts say about the method

Tennessee has twice failed to carry out lethal injections this year, raising new questions about the reliability of the execution method.

Christa Pike's botched execution fuels questions over whether lethal injection is the 'more humane' way to put people to death

Complications with lethal injections have led some states to revive older execution methods, including the firing squad.

Christa Pike surviving lethal injection may be unprecedented. The execution method's high fail rate is not

On Sept. 30, Christa Pike became the first known person to survive a lethal injection. While lethal injection is the most common execution method in the U.S., it has historically recorded the highest ...
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Q&A: How lethal injection ‘hides the violence’ of executions in the South and elsewhere

Louisiana has resumed executions using a novel nitrogen gas method — a legacy, in part, of problems getting the drugs used for lethal injections. But the injection method remains on the books in the ...
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US brings back firing squads, lethal injections as execution method

The Trump administration has moved to expand how the US federal death penalty can be carried out, reintroducing firing squads and bringing back lethal injection as part of a broader policy shift. The ...