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He's seen nearly 500 executions. But never one like Christa Pike's
Texas reporter Michael Graczyk has seen botched executions in his time, but not one in which an inmate survived.
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Le Monde.fr
After failed execution of Christa Pike, questions loom amid impossible US death penalty debate
The 50-year-old woman had been sentenced to death for a murder committed in 1995. After surviving two injections of barbiturates, she was transferred to intensive care Wednesday night at a hospital in Tennessee. The episode marks a dramatic failure of the US system of administering capital punishment.
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