Christa Pike botched execution
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Attorneys for convicted murderer Christa Pike say she is slowly recovering from a botched attempt to execute her with lethal injections. Dr. Lydia Dugdale, a doctor of internal medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital and a medical ethicist,
Christa Pike Botched Execution: Medical Condition Might've Saved Her Life, Doctor Says
The doctor who oversaw Christa Pike's failed lethal injection also supervised another Tennessee death row inmate's botched execution in May. Pike, 50, who was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, was administered two ...