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Capital punishment is surging in the US – but after Christa Pike’s botched execution, what is its future?

Trump has used the full might of the presidency to supercharge executions, but an avalanche of mishaps has put the system’s flaws in the spotlight It took more than an hour to establish the two intravenous lines through which Christa Pike would be injected with a giant and…

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