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Christa Pike execution staff says IV site might have 'blown'
Pike was hospitalized after surviving two doses of pentobarbital as the state tried to execute her on Sept. 30.,
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Christa Pike’s IV team warned vein might be ‘blowing’ before failed execution
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Attorney: Christa Pike's Executioners Used 10 Needles and Bent One During Failed Lethal Injection
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Source context: Pike was hospitalized after surviving two doses of pentobarbital as the state tried to execute her on Sept. 30.,
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Christa Pike’s IV team warned vein might be ‘blowing’ before failed execution
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Christa Pike execution staff says IV site might have 'blown'
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Attorney: Christa Pike's Executioners Used 10 Needles and Bent One During Failed Lethal Injection
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The GuardianCenter Left
Christa Pike’s IV team warned vein might be ‘blowing’ before failed execution
New account from Pike’s lawyer suggests team was racked by doubts even before pentobarbital began to flowThe Tennessee execution team tasked with setting an intravenous line in the arms of the death row prisoner Christa Pike through which she could be injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital repeatedly warned that her vein might be “blowing”, before…
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Execution Staff Warned Of IV Problems During Christa Pike's Execution
A court document says Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike’s arms before her attempted execution.
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Christa Pike execution staff says IV site might have 'blown'
Pike was hospitalized after surviving two doses of pentobarbital as the state tried to execute her on Sept. 30.,
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Attorney: Christa Pike's Executioners Used 10 Needles and Bent One During Failed Lethal Injection
The IV team tasked with executing murderer Christa Pike in Tennessee went through approximately 10 needles before injecting her with what was supposed to be a lethal double dose of pentobarbital, court documents filed by her attorney said.