The bloody history of botched executions — including cop-killer whose head exploded — after Christa Pike survived

Christa Pike became the first death row inmate to survive a lethal injection, but she was merely the latest in a long, gruesome history of botched executions — from a cop-killer’s head bursting into flames to executioners drunk on the job.

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