Blackburn calls to reinstate electric chair after Tennessee death row inmate’s botched lethal injections

Convicted murderer Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital during a botched lethal injection execution in Tennessee. Pike, 50, was convicted of killing Colleen Slemmer in 1995 and was hospitalized following the failed procedure. Consequently, Senator Marsha Blackburn is calling for the reinstatement of the electric chair. Meanwhile, Governor Bill Lee has suspended all executions in Tennessee for the remainder of the year after the Supreme Court overturned a last-minute appeal to stop the process.