Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike's arms before her attempted execution and warned that some of her veins may have ruptured, or "blown," before she was injected with the lethal drug, her attorney wrote in a court document filed Thursday.
New account from Pike’s lawyer suggests team was racked by doubts even before pentobarbital began to flow The Tennessee execution team tasked with setting an intravenous line in the arms of the death row prisoner Christa Pike through which she could be injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital repeatedly warned that her vein might be “blowing”, before they went ahead with the procedure, her lawyer has revealed. M…
New account from Pike’s lawyer suggests team was racked by doubts even before pentobarbital began to flow The Tennessee execution team tasked with setting an intravenous line in the arms of the death row prisoner Christa Pike through which she could be injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital repeatedly warned that her vein might be “blowing”, before they went ahead with the procedure, her lawyer has revealed. M…
NYTimes – US The Federal Aviation Administration issued a rare nationwide ground stop on Friday afternoon after its air traffic control telecommunications equipment became overloaded, officials said. The halt to departures lasted nearly five hours and ended around 8:15 p.m. ET, the longest such stoppage in 25 years. More than 8,200 flights, over 31% of those scheduled in the United States, were canceled, and officials expected a full recovery by Sunday.
Sky News – US A tanker struck a river cruise ship on the Mississippi River near the Port of New Orleans on Friday, partially submerging the passenger boat. Officials said there were no fatalities, all passengers were accounted for, and at least 32 people were treated at local hospitals. The Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans sued the tanker's owner, saying the Atlantic Asphalt caused at least $1 million in damage to its terminal; a judge issued a warrant Friday giving federal officials control of the ship for now.
NYTimes – US Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has won Alaska's governor's race, the first Democrat elected to the office since 1998. A former state legislator, he ran a campaign emphasizing bipartisanship in a state that usually votes Republican, and at 37 will be the youngest governor in Alaska's history. His victory means Democrats will hold 30 US governorships, including seats flipped in Iowa, Georgia, Ohio and Texas.
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