Tennessee governor halts executions after second botched lethal injection attempt this year – US politics live
The state’s execution protocol calls for a secondary set of drug syringes to be administered “if the inmate is not deceased” after the first set. It does not spell out what happens if the subject is alive after the second set.It was the second time this year that Tennessee has been unable to carry out an execution. Pete Hegseth announced that Elon Musk will co-lead a government project to study the future of warfare, with Palmer Luckey, CEO of the defense tech company Anduril, and Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker of the House.
- ▪The state’s execution protocol calls for a secondary set of drug syringes to be administered “if the inmate is not deceased” after the first set.
- ▪It does not spell out what happens if the subject is alive after the second set.It was the second time this year that Tennessee has been unable to carry out an execution.
- ▪Pete Hegseth announced that Elon Musk will co-lead a government project to study the future of warfare, with Palmer Luckey, CEO of the defense tech company Anduril, and Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker of the House.
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6m ago06.00 EDTTennessee governor halts executions after second botched lethal injection attempt this yearHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.Tennessee governor Bill Lee has halted the state’s remaining executions for the rest of the year after officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death yesterday.Pike, 50, was alive and loudly snoring after the attempted lethal injection and taken by ambulance from the prison, her attorneys said. She was being treated at a hospital, but they said they hadn’t been told about her condition.She had been scheduled for execution at 10am on Wednesday for the killing she committed at age 18 and would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.Governor Lee said that he was halting the one remaining execution for…
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