Christa Pike: 'Not The First Botched Execution': How US Drug Shortages Cripple Death Row

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“The Department of Corrections have been trying to source drugs from all sorts of places, even using cocktails of drugs we perhaps have not seen before. So it all feels very much like an experimental thing, to push these executions to go through.” Christa Pike received a drug dose “normally” capable of killing seven adults, there will "no doubt" be an investigation into yet another “botched” execution, says investigative journalist, Livvy Haydock. Livvy Haydock was speaking to Rosie Wright and Calum Macdonald on Times Radio Breakfast. Listen live every Friday-Sunday, 6-10am. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

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