Tennessee’s execution team’s botched lethal injection, which left Christa Pike alive, is being condemned by medical experts as gross incompetence equivalent to malpractice.
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New details of IV team’s attempts to find a vein shared by Pike’s lawyer ‘shocked and disturbed’ practitionersMedical experts have expressed shock at the apparent incompetence shown by Tennessee’s execution team during the failed lethal injection of Christa Pike, the prisoner who survived a normally fatal dose of pentobarbital, which they say would be considered medical malpractice in any other setting.New details emerged on Thursday of how Tennessee’s intravenous (IV) team struggled for almost an hour to set up a line into Pike’s arms through which she would be administered the fatal dose of sedative. A blow-by-blow account was released in legal proceedings from Pike’s lawyer, Randy Spivey, who was present inside the death chamber at her 30 September failed execution. Continue reading...
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