Governor candidates won't rehire corrections commissioner after botched execution

Democratic nominee Jerri Green called for Commissioner Frank Strada's resignation, while the other three candidates said they wouldn't keep him.
ABC News on MSN

Execution of lone woman on Tennessee's death row paused by federal appeals court

Christa Pike was set to be executed on Wednesday at 10 a.m. CT.

America’s Long History of Executions Includes Many Botched Ones

The failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee was the latest in a long string of botched executions in the United States, a history that extends almost as far back as executions themselves.
The US Sun

Death row killer Christa Pike’s botched execution ‘broke the law TWICE’ – as lawyers push for switch to life sentence

CHRISTA Pike’s executioners allegedly broke the law twice during the botched lethal injection. The death row killer’s lawyers are pushing for her punishment to be changed to a life

Another 'disturbing' botched execution. Why does this keep happening?

Since 1982, there have been at least 64 botched executions, the vast majority of which involved lethal injection, according to an analysis by the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. Seven of those execution attempts failed entirely because officials in Tennessee, Idaho, Alabama and Ohio could not properly insert intravenous lines.
The Statehouse News Bureau

Tennessee's botched execution echoes Ohio’s troubled history of execution issues

Some past witnesses to executions in Ohio say there have been several examples of botched lethal injections here.