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Christa Pike Put Tennessee on Notice About THIS
Before Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, Pike's lawyers put the state on notice in open court. Their January lawsuit identified a blood condition and small veins that they said would make an IV line hard to place and could fill her lungs with bloody froth. They offered an alternative: a 23-gauge butterfly needle, placed by trained medical staff. Tennessee's lawyers answered that blood draws had worked fine, her platelet levels were not a clotting problem, and pentobarbital works faster than pain.
Two doses went in on September 30. Pike…
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