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Botched lethal injection months before Christa Pike execution 'should have ended death penalty'

The Mirror UK News · 17 October 2026 at 09:04

Botched lethal injection months before Christa Pike execution 'should have ended death penalty'

EXCLUSIVE: Tony Carruthers also survived a lethal injection in Tennessee in May, and campaign group Death Penalty Focus have detailed how prisoners 'drown in their own fluids'

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Botched lethal injection months before Christa Pike execution 'should have ended death penalty'

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