Tennessee halts executions after death row inmate Christa Pike survives hers
Tennessee prison officials on Wednesday attempted to administer two lethal doses of pentobarbital to Pike but she survived and was taken to hospital. Pike, 50 was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer.She was 18 when she and her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, beat, tortured and killed 19-year-old Slemmer.Pike would have been the first woman to be executed in Tennessee for over 200 years. Speaking to reporters at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday morning, Lee said: "I'm highly disappointed, along with Tennesseans, about what happened last night."Governor Lee has not made clear who will conduct the independent review of the state's execution procedures.
- ▪Tennessee prison officials on Wednesday attempted to administer two lethal doses of pentobarbital to Pike but she survived and was taken to hospital.
- ▪Pike, 50 was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer.She was 18 when she and her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, beat, tortured and killed 19-year-old Slemmer.Pike would have been the first woman to be executed in Tennes
- ▪Speaking to reporters at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday morning, Lee said: "I'm highly disappointed, along with Tennesseans, about what happened last night."Governor Lee has not made clear who will conduct the independent review of t
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Tennessee halts executions after death row inmate Christa Pike survives hersImage source, Tennessee Department of CorrectionByBrandon DrenonPublished21 minutes agoExecutions in Tennessee have been halted for the rest of the year, Governor Bill Lee has said, after two attempts to execute death row inmate Christa Pike by lethal injection failed.In a statement to CBS News, the BBC's US partner, Lee said lawful executions were among the state's "most serious responsibilities", adding that he has ordered a third-party review "to determine exactly what occurred". Tennessee prison officials on Wednesday attempted to administer two lethal doses of pentobarbital to Pike but she survived and was taken to hospital. Her medical condition is unclear.
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