Christa Pike Can't Write Her Own Statement — Tennessee Says It Followed Protocol

Christa Pike is dictating a statement from the prison infirmary because she cannot hold a pen. Tennessee says it followed every step of its execution protocol. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke break down the gap between those two accounts. Corrections Commissioner Frank Strada resigned three days after Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital. Strada carried the same IV-access failures across state lines — he oversaw botched executions in Arizona before Lee hired him. Lee paused executions through his final months in office and ordered a review with no public deadline. Pike's lawyers argue a second attempt violates the Eighth Amendment. Lee was asked whether he bore responsibility for hiring Strada. He didn't answer. Colleen Slemmer's mother went home without the outcome the state promised her.

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