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Christa Pike survives lethal injection: what happens in the body when you receive this drug?

A woman sentenced to death in Tennessee remained alive after two lethal injections. Christa Pike was sentenced for a crime committed 30 years ago and now the result of this procedure has revived the debate on the effects of this type of substance to induce death. In the # InvitadoDelDiaF24, we talked to Lineth Alarcón Franco, a neurotoxicologist and neuropathologist, about the components of lethal injections, what happens to the body after receiving the drug and why it can fail.

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