Execution staff worried IV site 'might be blowing' while struggling to insert needles on Christa Pike, court filing says

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 pentobarbital, her attorney wrote in a court document

October 22, 2026Updated: October 22, 2026

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