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Christa Pike survives two lethal injections: violation of his human rights?

Christa Pike, a woman sentenced to death in Tennessee, remained alive after receiving two lethal injections, according to his lawyer on the night of September 30. The legal team filed a motion to rearrest its execution, after the U.S. Supreme Court authorized the state to proceed with it. The announcement, also confirmed by media witnesses, revived the debate on whether this case constitutes a violation of human rights. To analyze this, we talked to Lorena González, an international attorney and consultant at DD. HH.

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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.