The Tennessee execution team that tried to put Christa Pike to death repeatedly warned that her vein might be "blowing" before administering the lethal dose she ultimately survived, according to a new legal account that could explain why the execution failed. The minute-by-minute chronology, witnessed in the death chamber by Pike's lawyer Randy Spivey, is attached to a court motion arguing that Tennessee's lethal injection protocol poses an unacceptable risk of torture.
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