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Why is America running out of execution drugs? | The Global Story podcast
Last week, Tennessee attempted to carry out the execution of Christa Pike, a convicted murderer who had spent three decades on death row. But the execution did not go as planned: After she was injected with two lethal doses of pentobarbital, Pike remained alive. She was then taken to hospital by ambulance.
This isn’t the first time an American execution hasn’t gone as planned. One reason is that the drugs needed for lethal injection have become increasingly difficult for US prison officials to obtain. Pharmaceutical companies don’t want their medicines used in executions — particularly manufacturers in Europe, where governments have opposed the death penalty for decades.
So, without access to regulated drugs, American prisons have had to improvise — sometimes with horrifying results.
The Global Story’s Tristan Redman speaks with investigative reporter Livvy Haydock about the consequences when the pharmaceutical supply chain refuses to feed the machinery of American executions.
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00:00 Introduction
00:38 How a lethal injection is supposed to work
05:05 What went wrong in Christa Pike’s execution
07:16 Why America is struggling to get execution drugs
09:00 The drugs used in lethal injections
10:15 Why European drugmakers stopped supplying the US
12:38 America’s secret hunt for execution drugs
14:47 What happens when execution drugs expire
15:07 The London chemist supplying America
16:58 How the drug shortage can cause botched executions
17:30 Are lethal injections causing suffering?
19:05 Why the US can’t simply make its own execution drugs
21:21 Could prisons start making their own drugs?
21:46 Why Europe rejects the death penalty
22:32 Why Americans still support executions
23:17 When executions fail victims’ families
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US death row inmate Christa Pike is “conscious and speaking” after surviving a failed execution attempt in the state of Tennessee last week, her lawyers say.
Pike, 50, continues to receive critical medical care while handcuffed in hospital, according to a statement from her attorneys on Tuesday.
She was sentenced to death following her conviction for murdering Colleen Slemmer in 1995. But Pike survived two lethal injections last Wednesday and was transferred to a hospital in Nashville for treatment, where she remained unconscious while medical staff cleared her body of the injected pentobarbital.
An anaesthesiologist advising Pike’s defence team said her survival is highly unusual.
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A 22-year-old British national has been arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts in connection with an incident close to RAF Fairford, counter-terror police said.
The man was arrested in Westminster, London, on Tuesday as part of the investigation into the incident near the airbase in Gloucestershire last month.
It is the seventh arrest in connection to the incident – the six other men have been released on bail.
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The US has withdrawn all its bombers aircraft stationed at RAF Fairford in the UK following an alleged terror plot to target the facility. Washington has ben using the airfield to launch strikes on Iran, including deploying the B-1 strategic bomber.
In a statement the Pentagon said: “We can acknowledge now that all US bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have redeployed to their home stations in the United States.”
The withdrawal of a dozen B-1 strategic aircraft comes after British counter-terrorism police arrested six suspects in connection with a planned attack on the base that US and British officials said was disrupted last Sunday.
Police initially detained five British men near RAF Fairford after three suspicious vans were reported nearby. The suspects were released on police bail while remaining under investigation. Ccounterterrorism officers then arrested a 25-year-old dual British-Iranian citizen on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts linked to the incident. He has also been released on bail while inquiries continue.
The US President Donald Trump has said a planned attack was intended to do “big damage” and claimed that suspects were under investigation by both US and British authorities. Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that his country handed Britain intelligence about the suspected terror plot.
The British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said there were “strong indications” pointing to Iranian involvement in the incident near the airbase, although he stressed that the police investigation remained ongoing. Iran has denied any connection to an alleged terror operation.
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The United States has withdrawn all its bombers from a UK airbase which was the target of a suspected terror plot. The American aircraft had used RAF Fairford to launch missions against Iran. The bombers have now been redeployed to the US.
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