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Christa Pike's Execution: Tennessee Keeps WHO Anonymous?

Two doses of pentobarbital went into Christa Pike on September 30 and she lived, and the Tennessee Department of Correction says it followed every step of a protocol approved by the attorney general's office. Getting to a real answer means asking who the state had to rely on to get there.

Doctors and nurses are told by their own professional organizations to stay out of execution chambers, which leaves a state hunting for willing hands. Drug manufacturers producing pentobarbital for patients will not supply it for executions. Tennessee's answer to both problems is a layer of confidentiality: state law shields parts of the execution process, and the state has argued that naming its supplier would cost it that supplier.

Tennessee has been caught behind that curtain once already. The 2022 review by former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton found the state never gave the pharmacy making its drugs a copy of the lethal injection protocol, and that chemicals went out untested for endotoxins. Governor Bill Lee has appointed Stanton again, halted the remaining 2026 executions, and announced Commissioner Frank Strada's resignation.

Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins Tony Brueski on how far confidentiality should reach, and what a governor should be told about trying this a second time.

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