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.

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

Christa Pike is in critical condition after an execution attempt on Wednesday.

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.

MAGA Rep. Nancy Mace has been ripped for making jokes about the botched execution of a murderer in Tennessee. The 48-year-old Mace wrote that Tennessee should have “just sent in some killer moms” to execute Christa Pike,

From 1900 to 2025, there were eight failed executions in the United States. Tennessee has added two more to the list in the last five months. What happened Sept. 30 with Christa Pike and what happened in May 2026 with Tony Carruthers were more than botched executions.

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

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