Christa Pike’sfailed lethal-injection procedure added a startling new chapter to America’s history of botched capital punishment.
Pike was the latest person to survive a lethal-injection attempt, but her case differed from the others because the dr*gs were administered before officials stopped the procedure.
Her experience also brought renewed attention to seven earlier survivors, including Romell Broom, Kenneth Eugene Smith, Doyle Lee Hamm, Alan Miller, Thomas Creech, Alva Campbell, and Tony Carruthers.