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Tennessee prisons chief resigned after the failed execution of Christa Pike: they claim he supervised four other executions that also failed
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Clarín · North America
Frank Strada had been appointed in January 2023. He will leave office at the end of the month. The official had also supervised three executions with complications in the state of Arizona.
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