Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
Officials in Tennessee are confirming
that death row inmate Krista Gail Pike survived the state's attempt to execute her last night.
The state corrections department says Pike has been transported to an off-site
medical facility after officials were unable to carry out her lethal injection.
Catherine Sweeney is a reporter with member station WPLN.
She was among the media witnesses who described what they saw to other reporters.
She lifted her head up and was looking around at one point.
She said that there was a spot that was burning and hurting and asked if that was normal.
None of it was normal.
I covered all the executions last year and most of the ones this year.
We haven't seen anything like it.
It went really poorly.
Tennessee Governor Bob Lee has halted executions from being carried
out in the state and has ordered an outside investigation.
A commercial flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia
Wednesday after one of the pilots apparently stabbed the other pilot and tried to crash the plane.
NPR's Kat Lonsdorf was at the Tel Aviv airport as passengers from that flight finally arrived.
It was a chaotic scene packed with journalists and waiting family members.
The passengers slowly emerged, dragging suitcases, some crying, some smiling and looking relieved.