Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike

By KIM CHANDLER and KRISTIN M. HALL, Associated Press Sep 30, 2026 | 11:06 PM

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 […]