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You Are the Prison Doctor and the Execution Has Failed: Should Your Hands Be the Ones That Finish It?

Tennessee failed to execute death-row prisoner Christa Gail Pike even after administering two doses of the lethal drug pentobarbital. The Governor ordered an inquiry and her lawyers moved the state Supreme Court to halt the execution. A death-penalty expert quoted by the Associated Press called the case unprecedented, as no convict had survived once execution drugs were actually given. The episode has renewed debate on…