Tennessee’s prisons chief to resign after failed execution of Christa Pike
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Tennessee's top prisons official is stepping down after the failed execution of Christa Pike. The state's governor has also named Ed Stanton, a former US attorney, to lead a review of what happened in Pike's death chamber. Stanton's job will be to piece together the sequence of events that left the execution uncompleted.
The state’s governor also announced that former US attorney Ed Stanton would lead a review of what happened in Pike’s death chamber.