Tennessee halts executions after Christa Pike survives 2 doses of lethal drug

Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Pike to death on Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. A death penalty expert said it was an unprecedented failure, and Tennessee’s governor halted the remaining execution for the rest of the year. Pike, 50, was alive and loudly snoring after the attempted lethal injection and taken by ambulance from the prison, her lawyers said. She was being treated at a hospital, but they said they had not been told about her...