'Absolute torture': Female US inmate in critical condition after botched execution

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. 'Absolute torture': Female US inmate in critical condition after botched execution A condemned female murderer who survived two lethal injections during a botched execution by the US state of Tennessee was in critical condition and receiving "life-saving care," according to her attorneys.

In an extraordinary chain of events, Christa Pike, 50, was whisked from a prison execution chamber to a hospital, still alive despite two deadly doses of pentobarbital. What happened to Pike is "absolute torture," said Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner, Spokesperson for Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), speaking to FRANCE 24's Alison Sargent. Russia says all clear after contact tracing in reported plague case Madrid mourns evicted retiree, 'icon' of Spain housing protests No peace without international law: The message behind Navi Pillay’s Nobel French high school students react to Education Minister’s measures Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in international justice 'The Blue Fighter': Zimbabwean author Kundizeza wins 2026 Caine Prize Kenya Red Cross supports response to country’s first Ebola case Ebola outbreak: Border surveillance gaps raise concerns in the Central African Republic © 2026 Copyright France 24 - All rights reserved.

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