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URSY.NEWS / The Guardian / 22 Oct 2026

Christa Pike’s IV team warned vein might be ‘blowing’ before failed execution

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New account from Pike’s lawyer suggests team was racked by doubts even before the pentobarbital began to flowThe Tennessee execution team tasked with setting an intravenous line in the arms of 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 they went ahead with the procedure, her law…

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