Tennessee’s lethal drug supplier fears retaliation after Christa Pike’s botched execution: court docs

Source: New York Post

Tennessee prison officials are begging a judge to keep their lethal drug suppliers’ identities under wraps – over fears that the vendors will face retaliation for Christa Pike’s bungled execution, newly filed court documents reveal.   Pike, 50, became the first ever death row inmate to survive lethal injection execution after she was given two doses of pentobarbital – a short-acting barbiturate drug – allegedly administered with at least 10 needles inside of a Nashville prison on Sept. 30.