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Hena Doba speaks with retired surgeon and lethal injection expert Dr. Jonathan Groner about the ethics of capital punishment.

New details of IV team’s attempts to find a vein shared by Pike’s lawyer ‘shocked and disturbed’ practitioners Medical 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...

Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike's arms before her attempted execution and warned that some of her veins may have ruptured, or "blown," before she was injected with the lethal drug, her attorney wrote in a court document filed Thursday.

Pike was hospitalized after surviving two doses of pentobarbital as the state tried to execute her on Sept. 30.,

Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike's arms during her attempted execution and warned that some of her veins may have ruptured, or "blown," before she was injected with pentobarbital, her attorney wrote.

New account from Pike’s lawyer suggests team was racked by doubts even before pentobarbital began to flow The Tennessee execution team tasked with setting an intravenous line in the arms of the death row prisoner Christa Pike through which she could be injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital repeatedly warned that her vein might be “blowing”, before they went ahead with the procedure, her lawyer has revealed. Members of the intravenous (IV) team used up to 10 needles as they sought to establish a line through which Pike could be killed with a massive dose of the sedative. About 20 minutes into the attempt, they began discussing among themselves whether the prisoner’s vein “might be blowing”. Continue reading...

Florida carried out its 18th execution of the year on Tuesday under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' aggressive use of the death penalty in his final term.

Florida executed a 77-year-old Vietnam veteran for the 1986 fatal shooting of an Indian River County sheriff's deputy.

A 77-year-old Florida man was put to death in the Sunshine State's 18th execution this year as Gov. Ron DeSantis continues the state's accelerated execution pace.

Florida carried out its 18th execution this year under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' aggressive use of the death penalty.

Last year, Florida set a state record with 19 executions in a year, and it's poised to tie that mark if another execution is carried out next month as scheduled.

Vietnam veteran William Reaves executed by lethal injection despite letter from fellow veterans urging halt Florida carried out its 18th execution of the year on Tuesday under Republican governor Ron DeSantis’s aggressive use of the death penalty in his final term. William Reaves, 77, was pronounced dead at 6.12pm following a three-drug injection at Florida state prison near Starke. He was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1986 shooting death of Indian River county deputy Richard Raczkowski. Continue reading...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a death-row inmate after a number of former public officials, and the current district attorney, raised doubts about his conviction.

One-third of Americans support a second execution attempt for condemned inmates who survive the first, a Reuters/Ipsos poll finds, as Tennessee reviews its failed lethal injection of Christa Pike last month.

A third of Americans think that the government should try a second time to put 50-year-old Christa Pike to death after she survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection last month. A four-day Reuters/Ipsos poll found 33 percent American adults said a second attempt should be made to execute inmates who survive the...