Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Calls grow for US death penalty halt after ‘torturous’ botched execution of Christa Pike

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Pike alive but in critical condition as experts call ordeal that unfolded in Tennessee Wednesday ‘unimaginably barbaric’Top lawyers, doctors and members of the faith community are calling for a moratorium on the US death penalty after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike left the prisoner alive but in critical condition and receiving life-saving medical care.The recent spate of harrowingly botched executions across US death penalty states reached a new low late on Wednesday when Tennessee’s governor Bill Lee <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/01/christa-pike-tennessee-governor-executions-year-pause" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">called off the procedure</a> after Pike had been injected with two full syringes of pentobarbital. She is the only person to have survived being administered 5mg of the sedative – a massive dose that under normal circumstances is considered fatal. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/02/us-death-penalty-christa-pike-tennessee" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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