Christa Pike's lawyers warned her veins could make execution 'difficult and perhaps cruel'

Christa Pike in court in Nashville in 2012.Photograph: Dipti Vaidya/USA TODAY NETWORK/Imagn Images/Reuters Connect
A former lawyer for Christa Pike says he was not surprised that Tennessee botched its attempt to execute her because attorneys had warned that problems accessing her veins could make the procedure dangerous and potentially cruel.
James Crowson, who represented Pike during part of her post-conviction appeals, said he had followed the case from afar before the failed execution at Riv