United States: her execution fails after two lethal injections, the condemned transferred to hospital

Christa Gail Pike, sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, failed to be executed in Tennessee on September 30. Despite receiving two doses of pentobarbital, she remained alive and was taken to a hospital. The execution was halted after this incident, even though the US Supreme Court had allowed it to proceed. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced a suspension of all remaining executions in the state for the year and called for an independent review of the incident.