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'Bring Back the Electric Chair': Marsha Blackburn's Vow After Christa Pike Survives Two Pentobarbital Doses

US Senator Marsha Blackburn has called for greater use of Tennessee's electric chair after Christa Pike survived a failed execution, prompting a review and an executions pause.

International Business Times UK · Oct 2

Christa Pike's Botched Lethal Injection: Legal Team Calls Procedure 'Torturous', Cites 'Unnecessary Agony'

Christa Pike remained alive after two doses of pentobarbital during a failed Tennessee execution. Her lawyers alleged unnecessary agony, while officials defended the procedure and her medical condition remained unclear.

International Business Times UK · Oct 2

'Worst We've Seen,' Says Expert as Christa Pike Survives Two Doses and Is Heard Snoring

Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital during an attempted execution in Tennessee, prompting a third-party review and a halt to the state's remaining scheduled execution.

International Business Times UK · Oct 1

Serial rapist who murdered student set to be executed in Tennessee

His attorneys unsuccessfully sought to have his sentence commuted to life in prison

The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2025

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols asks governor for life in prison instead

Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled Dec. 11 execution date

The Independent UK · Nov 12, 2025

Media coalition sues Tennessee prison officials to get more access to executions

A coalition of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging that state execution protocols unconstitutionally limit the media’s access to the entire process when inmates are put to death

The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2025

Tennessee judge gives state leeway on deactivating inmate's heart-regulating device before execution

A Tennessee judge has ruled that the state can deactivate a death-row inmate’s implanted heart-regulating device at a hospital on the morning of his execution, rather than bringing a doctor or technician into the execution chamber

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2025

Tennessee reverses course, releases redacted execution manual with vague details

Tennessee's Department of Correction has released a redacted version of its newly completed execution manual after initially refusing to do so

The Independent UK · Jan 9, 2025

US Justice Department to investigate violence and sexual abuse at Tennessee's largest prison

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into a privately operated Tennessee prison where officials say violence and sexual abuse have gone unaddressed for years

The Independent UK · Aug 20, 2024