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Tennessee governor pauses executions after botched lethal injections

Death row inmate Christa Pike survived two injections intended to kill her. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has now paused the state’s remaining executions pending an independent review.

Host Indira Lakshmanan gets an eyewitness account of the botched execution from Catherine Sweeney, WPLN health reporter.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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