Christa Pike's failed execution fuels questions about drug used

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Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital in Tennessee, raising new questions about lethal injections. Pike's attorneys, who had warned the court she had vein issues, are now asking the governor to commute her sentence. CNN’s Meg Tirrell reports.

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