What's missing from the lethal injection conversation

Short Wave by NPR

Oct 7, 202614:38Science & Medicine

You might have seen the news that Christa Pike, a convicted murderer in Tennessee, did not die from the injections given to her as part of her death penalty sentence last week. After her failed execution, she was hospita...

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