Tag: botched_executions

NPR: Tennessee Execution Problems Echo Official's Arizona Record

9 Oct 2026 7:49 a.m.

NPR reports Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong under Frank Strada, who oversaw three botched executions in Arizona before leading Tennessee's prisons.

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