In 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike, along with her boyfriend and a friend, tortured and killed a classmate.
Pike was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for her part in the crimes.
Last month, officials in Tennessee, where the murder took place, tried to execute her.
Around 7.30 at night, officials gave Pike pentobarbital at a dose high enough
that it should cause someone to stop breathing and die.
But she didn't.
She's breathing, moaning, snoring.
So the state gave her another dose.
But that didn't work either.
Around 9 p.m., the ambulances arrive.
Six days later, Pike woke up and started talking.
I think she is angry and confused about everything right now.
The case is shining a spotlight on America's problems with administering the death penalty.
Support for the policy has been declining for decades.
But the number of executions is going up.
Today on Today Explained from Vox, inside America's death penalty assembly line.
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