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Christa Pike survived 2 doses of an execution drug. How is that possible?

Christa Pike survived 2 doses of an execution drug. How is that possible?
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Christa Pike regaining consciousness and speaking a week after receiving two doses of execution drugs in Tennessee has left a stunning question: How did she survive? Attorneys for Pike, 50, called her recovery “medically unprecedented” after she was placed on a ventilator following the bungled Se...

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