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Politics● ElevatedOct 1 · Oct 1, 2026, 3:09 AM

Tennessee inmate Christa Pike still alive after lethal injection dose, lawyers say

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Lawyers for Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike said she was still alive Wednesday night after being administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs.   Pike’s federal public defenders wrote in a motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court that witnesses reported she had been given doses of pentobarbital at 8:26 p.m. but was “still alive and…

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