Tennessee prison officials botched a lethal injection so badly that a woman survived two doses of pentobarbital — and then dispatchers sat on a 911 call for half an hour because they couldn't figure out if the emergency was real. If the state can't even handle a phone call inside its own execution chamber, it has no business deciding who lives and who dies.
Christa Pike, 50, was strapped to a gurney for roughly an hour on September 30 while medical staff jabbed her with at least seven needles, one of which bent coming out of her arm, according to her attorney Randy Spivey. Two doses of pentobarbital failed to kill her. She was rushed to the hospital unconscious, hooked to a ventilator, with her lawyers fearing she was brain dead. She miraculously regained consciousness last week, asking,
