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.

"We take no pleasure in being right, but the concerns raised by Ms. Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care available when things inevitably go wrong,

The failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee was the latest in a long string of botched executions in the United States, a history that extends almost as far back as executio

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

After a botched lethal injection in May, dozens of Tennessee medical professionals told the governor that healthcare professionals shouldn't help with executions, no matter the method.