New Actor: Frank Strada Resigns After Execution Failure

Frank Strada, Tennessee’s corrections commissioner, resigned after the state’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike. Gov. Bill Lee announced that Strada is stepping down.

The Sept. 30 lethal injection involved two doses of pentobarbital, and Pike was later taken to a Nashville-area hospital unconscious, intubated, and on a ventilator. Strada’s departure shifts control of the prison system as the state investigates how the execution attempt failed.

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