{"id":867799,"date":"2026-10-02T03:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867799\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T03:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:20:09","slug":"i-am-haunted-tennessee-grapples-with-questions-after-another-botched-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867799\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I am haunted\u2019: Tennessee grapples with questions after another botched execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6V4S6OD6LRASZDNMBKD5E5FBGY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">For months before the state of Tennessee planned to execute Christa Pike, she and her attorneys worried that the lethal injection could go wrong.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TCY3MKKVKNDWPMHNCWU2SWK5DM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In court filings and in multiday hearings, they challenged the state\u2019s existing protocols, raising fears that she could endure undue suffering and that a blood disorder and her small veins might cause complications. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For months before the state of Tennessee planned to execute Christa Pike, she and her attorneys worried that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-867799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}