{"id":"dea270e7-5d75-4de9-9c40-f010dff838c6","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/christa-pike-failed-execution-lawyer-witness","domain":"theguardian.com","outlet":{"name":"The Guardian","country":"GB","cred":4,"lean":-1,"curated":true,"owner":"Guardian Media Group"},"title":"Christa Pike’s IV team warned vein might be ‘blowing’ before failed execution","plainHeadline":"Pike's IV team warned her vein might be blowing before failed execution.","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["Tennessee death-row inmate Christa Pike survived a full pentobarbital dose during 1995 murder case.","IV team used up to 10 needles and pondered whether the vein was blowing during the attempt.","The attempt began at 6:35pm and ended around 7:24pm when the team stopped.","Pike remained alive, snoring and choking, before being hospitalized and later returned to prison.","New court filings reveal minute-by-minute accounts, prompting calls for a review of lethal injection protocols."],"topics":["Politics","Health"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-10-22T18:42:14.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-10-22T18:55:02.176Z","story":"https://brief.concise.news/story/b3d17e6b-7ddb-4e89-8705-050bf272235e","storyId":"b3d17e6b-7ddb-4e89-8705-050bf272235e","image":"https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/027762e10a255e4badc86d398cfcd3c0b35fe3cd/100_0_2039_1632/master/2039.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9256d660c66d68072ae7eb7206fb3085","author":"Ed Pilkington in New York","dek":"New account from Pike’s lawyer suggests team was racked by doubts even before the pentobarbital began to flow"}