Summary
The head of Tennessee’s prison system, Frank Strada, is resigning after a failed execution of prisoner Christa Pike. The state has started an independent review to find out why the execution did not work properly.Key Facts
- Tennessee’s prisons chief, Frank Strada, will step down this month.
- The resignation follows the failed execution of Christa Pike on Wednesday.
- Pike was put on a ventilator and remains unconscious in a hospital.
- Officials are trying to remove the execution drug pentobarbital from her body.
- An independent review has been ordered by Governor Bill Lee to investigate the failure.
- Pike’s lawyers say the problem may have been with the IV lines used to deliver the drug.
- Pike was convicted of murder at age 18 and is one of the youngest women on death row.
- This is not Tennessee’s first failed execution in 2024.
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