A HORRIFYING picture of the injuries suffered by death row inmate Christa Pike during her botched execution has reportedly leaked. The image is said to show serious damage to her arm from the

The head of Tennessee's prison system will step down after the botched execution of Christa Pike last week. Gov. Bill Lee also announced an independent investigation will be conducted by a former U.S.

The failed execution of Christa Pike Wednesday night in Tennessee wasn’t the first time a lethal injection didn’t go as planned. It wasn’t even the first time this year in the state of Tennessee.

Tennessee’s botched executions are renewing the conversation surrounding Missouri’s execution policies.

Since 1982, there have been at least 64 botched executions, the vast majority of which involved lethal injection, according to an analysis by the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. Seven of those execution attempts failed entirely because officials in Tennessee, Idaho, Alabama and Ohio could not properly insert intravenous lines.

The failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee was the latest in a long string of botched executions in the United States, a history that extends almost as far back as executions themselves.

Roughly 3% of all US executions in the century between 1890 and 2010 were botched, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Christa Pike is on death row in Tennessee for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. Pike was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday night, but she was still alive after receiving two doses of a lethal injection.

Attorneys for Christa Pike, who survived a botched execution in Tennessee last week, have renewed their push for the state to commute her death sentence.

BOTCHED death row executions have haunted the US for decades from a murderer whose head burst into flames to a doctor left soaked in blood. Hundreds of criminals have been subjected to horrific