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.

Christa Pike continued breathing for nearly an hour after she was administered lethal drugs in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.

Missouri's execution protocols contain the same drug used in the botched Tennessee execution of Christa Pike. Though administered differently, both states use one drug for their lethal injections: Pentobarbital.

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

Death row inmate Christa Pike survived a failed attempt to execute her Wednesday in Tennessee. Pike was set to be executed for a 1995 murder, officials gave her two doses of the lethal drug, pentobarbital.

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.

A corrections commissioner who oversaw multiple botched executions in AZ was hired by Tennessee's governor to manage lethal injections there.

Convicted killer Christa Pike was taken from Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville by ambulance after a failed execution attempt.

A botched lethal injection in Tennessee this week has reignited national scrutiny over capital punishment.

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