Death penalty in the US: awake after a botched execution, Christa Pike reignites the lethal injection debate
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FranceParis is dissecting an unprecedented medical fiasco: the French press is focusing on the failure of the pentobarbital injection and the issue that Tennessee had not anticipated, that of a condemned woman who wakes up.
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BelgiumBrussels recalls the story of the "unprecedented fiasco": the Belgian press tells the story of Christa Pike's awakening through the words of her lawyer and the renewed debate on the death penalty.
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through debate
the narrative focuses on reviving the debate on lethal injection rather than the 1995 crime.
Relying on expertise
the medical explanation for the failure is based on unnamed experts and an anesthesiologist hired by the defense.
What the account puts first
BelgiumRelies on the lawyer
the awakening story is based on the defense statement, quoted verbatim by the two titles.
Reduced role of the victim
Colleen Slemmer only appears in one sentence recalling the facts.