NashvilleTwo lethal doses on September 30 failed to kill Christa Pike.
Pike, who killed Colleen Slemmer in 1995, still faces death and lives in constant pain, she says.
Her lawyers say the drug pooled in her arms instead of entering her bloodstream, leaving them burned and blistered.
“I’m deeply hurt by the incompetence that has put so many people in this terrible position,” Pike said.
Governor Bill Lee suspects her sentence will stand unless courts decide otherwise, and an independent review is pending.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 350+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story differently.
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- centers Pike's pain and the phenobarbital pooling in her arms as the possible cause of failure, quoting her 'incompetence' charge
- TEMPO.CO leans critical
- notes Governor Lee ordered an investigation, postponed Tennessee's other scheduled execution, and that the state's prison chief resigned
- India TV News
- foregrounds Pike's expressed gratitude to the medical staff who saved her life, alongside her acknowledgement of the victim's family's grief
Sources: Al Jazeera Online, TEMPO.CO, India TV News