Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike’s arms before her attempted execution and warned that some of her veins may have ruptured, or “blown,” before she was injected with pentobarbital, her attorney wrote in a court document filed Thursday.
Execution staff worried IV site might have ‘blown’ during Christa Pike’s execution attempt | CNN
Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike’s arms before her attempted execution and warned that some of her veins may have ruptured, or “blown,” before she was injected with pentobarbital, her attorney wrote in a court document filed Thursday.
April 12, 2012; Nashville, TN, USA; Christa Gail Pike, on death row for a slaying, appears in court Thursday to fight a conviction in a 2001 attack on an inmate.
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