Christa Pike execution fails: What next when a lethal injection is botched? | Death Penalty News | Al Jazeera

Christa Pike, a 50-year-old woman on Tennessee's death row, failed to be executed when two doses of lethal injection drugs did not kill her. She was taken to hospital after her heart kept beating. Her execution was scheduled to make her the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in over 200 years, but the procedure was halted following the failed injection, despite a last-minute stay attempt. Human rights experts described the botched execution as torture and criticized the death penalty as inhumane.