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The botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee has made national headlines. Bernard E. Harcourt, professor of law and civil liberties at Columbia University, represented Doyle Hamm, who survived a botched execution by lethal injection. Harcourt joined CBS News New York to weigh in.
Christa Pike "remains critically ill" and is receiving medical care after a botched execution attempt in Tennessee, her attorneys said.
Luigi Mangione's lawyers are urging a judge to bar federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Each death penalty case is authorized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in consultation with local U.S. Attorney offices, who prosecute the cases.
Marcellus Williams was convicted in the 1998 stabbing death of Felicia Gayle in Missouri, but DNA testing raised questions.
