"Chemical torture." Thus the process was described by the lawyers of a 50-year-old woman sentenced to death, who was left in life support after two doses of a lethal injection were missed. Christa Pike asked if it was normal for his arm to hurt so much as the pentobarbital entered his bloodstream. "It shouldn't be that hard," President Donald Trump questioned. On 3 October, the trial took over the head of the Tennessee prison system.

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