Christa Pike unconscious and on ventilator after botched execution

By Sky News Australia

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Christa Pike, the woman sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of a classmate in Tennessee, is on a ventilator following her botched execution earlier this week. The state will suspend all scheduled executions for the rest of the year, and the head of the Department of Correction will resign, as opponents of the death penalty use this case to push their cause.

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