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Source: theguardian.com

<p>Frank Strada facing mounting questions after Pike survives injection with lethal drugs in Tennessee</p><p>Tennessee’s prison chief is under fire for the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/tennessee-execution-halted-christa-pike" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">failed execution</a> of Christa Pike, which lawyers say was the fifth “botched” execution under his leadership across two states since 2022.</p><p>Frank Strada, the commissioner of the Tennessee department of correction, has faced <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/01/christa-pike-what-we-know-so-far" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">mounting questions</a> about the state’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/tennessee-doctor-executions-death-penalty" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">highly secretive</a> death penalty <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/tennessee-scheduled-to-execute-man" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">protocols</a> since Wednesday evening when Pike became the first death row prisoner in the US to to be injected with lethal drugs and survive.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/03/christa-pike-frank-strada-botched-executions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>