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UN warns over planned livestreamed US execution after Tennessee mishap
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Lethal injection doses administered to Christa Pike
Tennessee officials botched an execution of Christa Pike, who survived the lethal injection. The US plans to livestream Nidal Malik Hasan’s military execution, but the UN warned that a public execution could breach the prohibition on torture. Tennessee’s corrections commissioner plans to step down.
2 sourcesabc.net.au, UN NewsUpdated
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Tennessee officials botched Christa Pike's execution.
2 of 2 sources“Just days after state officials botched the 50-year-old's execution”
Christa Pike survived the lethal injection attempt.
2 of 2 sources“the first recorded case of someone surviving the drug”