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Woman survives two lethal injections in botched Tennessee execution

Woman survives two lethal injections in botched Tennessee execution
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Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. A death penalty expert said it was an unprecedented failure. Pike was alive and loudly snoring after the attempted lethal injection and taken by ambulance...

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