- President Donald Trump has stated that carrying out a lethal injection should not be very difficult following a botched execution attempt in Tennessee.
- Death row prisoner Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital at a Nashville prison and remains in a critical condition receiving life-saving care.
- The execution team used at least seven needles while attempting to find a vein in Pike's arms, with her survival described as ‘unprecedented’.
- Pike was convicted for the 1995 murder of classmate Colleen Slemmer and was set to be the first woman executed in the state in 206 years.
- Her legal representatives condemned the failed execution as chemical torture, with human rights groups and the UN also deeming it cruel.
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