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⭕️ The governor of Tennessee has halted the state’s remaining executions for the rest of the year after officials were unable to put Christa Gail Piketo death on Wednesday. Pike continued breathing, talking, and snoring for nearly an hour after receiving two rounds of lethal injection drugs, prompting Tennessee to halt the execution and administer emergency medical care to her. Her attorneys said she was taken to a nearby hospital with no update on her condition.

Robin Maher, the director of the Death Penalty Information Center, called Wednesday night’s execution “one of the worst botched executions in the modern death penalty era.” Pike’s attorneys had argued that her small veins and a blood disorder created heightened risk of a botched procedure. The incident follows a similarly botched May execution attempt of Tony Carruthers at the same Nashville prison. Republican Gov. Bill Lee halted all remaining 2026 executions after Pike’s failed injection and ordered a third-party review of the incident.

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