Tennessee fails to execute Christa Pike after 2 doses of lethal drug

Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. A death penalty expert said it was an unprecedented failure. Pike was alive and loudly snoring after the attempted lethal injection and was taken by ambulance from the prison, her lawyers said. Neither the lawyers nor the Tennessee Department of Corrections officials provided an update on Pike’s condition late Wednesday. Pike, 50, had been scheduled for...