Missouri’s execution protocols contain the same drug used in the botched Tennessee execution of Christa Pike. Though administered differently, both states use one drug for their lethal injections: ...
The differences between the current protocol and the previous one have become a focus in Christa Pike’s failed execution. By Emily Cochrane Reporting from Nashville Last year, Tennessee’s lethal ...
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court paused her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.