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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Alba Asenjo Domínguez

Witnesses detail horror of Tennessee woman’s botched execution: ‘None of it was normal’

an incarcerated walks into a courtroom
Christa Pike entering a Knox county criminal court in Knoxville, Tennessee, on 4 December 2007. Photograph: J Miles Cary/Reuters

When the prison warden asked Christa Pike if she had any last words, she said she was going to leave this world “with love” for those on her side and also the ones angry with her.

What followed was the second botched execution in Tennessee this year, after two doses of the lethal injection failed to produce the desired effect.

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