Jamaal Howard’s lawyers urged halt, citing risk of another failed execution, but court denied request Texas on Wednesday is scheduled to carry out the first execution in the US after the the botched lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee last week. Lawyers for Jamaal Howard, a Texas man on

Lawyers for Christa Pike, who survived two lethal injections, gave updates on her condition, saying she is severely unwell, and ‘angry and confused about everything right now’. Following a court hearing on Wednesday, a judge ordered Tennessee officials to preserve all evidence from the botched e

Tennessee prisoner awake and speaking after surviving state’s attempt to execute her last Wednesday Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after botched execution attempt, lawyers say One of Christa Pike’s lawyers, Luke Ihnen, said Pike was “speaking, limitedly” as he addressed Judge I’Ash