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Christa Pike’s Execution Doctor Did WHAT Four Months Earlier?!
Four months before Christa Pike’s execution attempt on September 30, the same doctor overseeing her lethal injection failed to execute Tony Carruthers. The state of Tennessee knew that — and sent him into the chamber anyway.
Dr. Mark Fowler is a sixty-eight-year-old family medicine doctor from Union City, Tennessee. He holds no current hospital privileges. In a 2025 deposition, he testified he hadn’t placed a central line — the critical backup procedure in the execution protocol — in over thirteen years. He said he didn’t even know the protocol required it until the prisoners’ lawyers told…
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