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Christa Pike execution fails: What next when a lethal injection is botched?
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- Christa Pike seeks firing squad, not lethal injection: Inside US executions
- Execution of US murderer Christa Pike halted shortly before it was due to happen
- US appeals court halts Tennessee execution of Christa Pike
- Tennessee death-row prisoner Christa Pike survives lethal injections
- Execution of US woman Christa Pike fails after botched lethal injection
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