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When Healthcare Standards Fail Behind Prison Walls: Tennessee’s Botched Execution and Arizona’s Troubling Record

Christa Pike survived her own execution. The state of Tennessee administered two full doses of pentobarbital, and she did not die — leaving witnesses, prison officials, and the public to grapple with what it means when a government carries out its most irreversible act and gets it wrong.