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Christa Pike survived 2 doses of an execution drug. How is that possible?

WCCB CharlotteBy DJ BealOctober 7, 2026Triad

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Attorneys for Pike, 50, called her recovery “medically unprecedented” after she was placed on a ventilator following the bungled Sept. 30 attempt to make her the first woman put to death in Tennessee in 200 years.

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