US death row inmate receiving 'life-saving care' after botched execution

Christa Pike is critically ill and receiving "life-saving medical care" in a Nashville hospital hours after she survived two attempts to execute her with lethal injections, her lawyers said, renewing scrutiny of ⁠capital punishment in the US. Pike, 50, was sentenced to death in the 1990s after being convicted of a murder she carried out as a teenager. Her botched execution on Wednesday at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, the second this year in Tennessee, highlights the difficul