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Tennessee prisons official resigns after Christa Pike’s failed US execution

The state’s governor said Frank Strada would step down as an independent review examines what went wrong.
The official in charge of the prison system in the US state of Tennessee has resigned just days after overseeing the botched execution of Christa Pike.
The state’s governor, Bill Lee, announced on Saturday that Tennessee Department of Correction Comm... [2638 chars]
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