LIVE: Christa Pike’s attorney speaks after failed execution
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Christa Pike’s attorney holds a news conference after Pike’s failed lethal injection. Pike, 50, was sentenced to death in the 1990s after a jury convicted her of a murder she carried out as a teenager. Her botched execution at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, the second this year in Tennessee, highlights the difficulties US states face in carrying out lethal injections.
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Fonte: Reuters