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Christa Pike’s Execution Left Behind WHAT Evidence?!
Christa Pike’s failed September 30, 2026 execution has produced a court order directing Tennessee officials to preserve the equipment and records from the procedure. The order followed a confrontation between her attorneys’ claims about failed IV lines and the corrections department’s assertion that its team followed the protocol.
Pike received two doses of pentobarbital and survived. Her lawyers say the drug leaked into surrounding tissue and left serious injuries. Those allegations echo warnings in a lawsuit filed before the execution, when her team described thrombocytosis and difficult…
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