Politics● ElevatedOct 1 · Oct 1, 2026, 7:50 AM
‘It was a mess’: Tennessee fails to execute inmate after 2 lethal injections
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Tennessee failed to execute Christa Pike, the lone woman on its death row as planned Wednesday, after injecting her with a lethal drug, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
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