US woman on death row survives two lethal injections in Tennessee - The Latest

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  This is The Guardian.

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  Pretty obvious when it's being botched and it's pretty frequent.

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  There's a moderate chance that the poor woman will be brain damaged by what she went through.

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  One of the things that really aggravates me is the government telling victims

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  that somehow this is going to be a cathartic experience.

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  I've been in the chamber with the victims who have watched someone die in front of us and when they come out...

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  Their lives haven't got better.

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  From the Guardians today in Focus, this is The Latest with me, Lucy Hoth.

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  A woman in Tennessee, Krista Pike, has survived two doses of a lethal injection.

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  Clive Stafford-Smith, you are an attorney who's been working against capital punishment

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  and the death penalty in the US for many years now.

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  What happened in this case?

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  Because there were journalists and eyewitnesses present, weren't there?

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  There were.

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  And I'm sad to say I've been there and done that.

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  I've had six of my clients over the years executed and two were by lethal injection.

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  And it's one of those things that a little understood

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  that the lethal injection is botched more than any other form of execution.

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  And that's what happened last night to Krista.

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  And there are a couple of main reasons for that.

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