Christa Pike: What happens when executions go wrong?

Podcast: What in the World · BBC World Service

Opublikowano: 2026-10-09

Last week, Christa Pike, a death row inmate in the US faced execution via lethal injection for a murder she committed in 1995. But after she was given two full doses of the drug pentobarbital, she survived. At the time of uploading this podcast, she remains awake in hospital and it’s unclear what went wrong with the attempted execution. We hear the details from BBC reporters in the US, who have been covering this story including Brandon Drenon, Kayla Epstein and Nada Tawfik. Not long after Pike’s recovery, the US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, anno...