Christa Pike, who has been on death row for over 30 years for murder, is the first person in the modern era of the U.S. death penalty to receive lethal injection drugs and survive.

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.

Following the botched execution of Christa Pike, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee faced questions on Thursday about the record of his corrections commissioner.

Steve Harrigan reports on the botched execution of a Tennessee inmate who was hospitalized after failed lethal injection attempts.

Gov. Bill Lee ordered a review of the state’s capital-punishment process after the botched attempt to put Christa Pike to death. She was hospitalized late Wednesday.

The execution of Christa Pike appears to have been botched, after shesurvivedtwo doses of lethal injection before being transported to a local hospital in Tennessee where she is i

Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital in a botched Tennessee execution, and her lawyers now urge Gov. Bill Lee to commute her death sentence.

BOTCHED death row executions have haunted the US for decades from a murderer whose head burst into flames to a doctor left soaked in blood. Hundreds of criminals have been subjected to horrific