Two doses of a lethal injection drug have failed to kill Christa Gail Pike , a 50-year-old woman who was due to be executed on Wednesday. Pike was taken to hospital after it was found that her heart was still beating following the procedure. Pike would have been the first woman in more than 200 years to be put to death in Tennessee and was the only woman on the state’s death row. Her attempted execution with doses of the sedative pentobarbital went ahead despite a last-minute stay by a federal appeals court on Wednesday, which was overturned just an hour before her execution by the Supreme Court. Human rights experts said the botched execution illustrates why the death penalty is inhumane and should be abolished.
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