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Christa Pike survived an execution. What went wrong?

Christa Pike survived an execution. What went wrong?
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By Dakin Andone, Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — After a flurry of eleventh-hour litigation, Christa Pike was strapped to a gurney Wednesday night, set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years. But after being injected with two doses of pentobarbital, Pike was still alive, snoring...

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