Tennessee
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Christa Pike makes 1st public statement since failed executionPike, 50, said she has been in constant pain since she survived two doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30 for the 1995 stabbing death of 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer.TrendingOct 30
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Why did Christa Pike’s attempted execution fail? What medical experts sayThe 5-gram dose of pentobarbital used in lethal injection executions is many more times the amount than what should put someone in a medical coma.TrendingOct 7
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Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after failed execution, lawyers sayThe 50-year-old's prognosis remains unclear and she faces a lengthy recovery, her lawyers said, noting that her arms were burned and blistered from the execution attemptTrendingOct 7
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Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator after failed execution, court hearsHospital staff, were working to save Pike's life and clear the two doses of pentobarbital, which Tennessee uses in its executions, from her system.TrendingOct 2
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Christa Pike is alive and receiving ‘life saving medical care,’ lawyers sayPike, 50, was alive and making audible snoring sounds after receiving the drugs and was taken by ambulance from the prison, her lawyers said.TrendingOct 1
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Tennessee set to execute 1st woman in 200 yearsPike, 50, who was sentenced to death at the age of 20 for the 1995 murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, will receive the lethal injection on Wednesday morning.TrendingSep 29
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Tyre Nichols: 3 ex-officers convicted, 2 acquitted of charges in fatal beatingThree former Memphis police officers were convicted of charges of witness tampering, but two of them were acquitted of federal civil rights violations in Nichols' 2023 death.U.S. NewsOct 3, 2024
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Store clerk stole $1M lottery ticket from unsuspecting winner, police sayPolice say he threw the ticket in the trash after telling the customer it was not a winner, only to go back and fish it out of the garbage later on.TrendingJul 24, 2024
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Tennessee lawmakers pass bill allowing armed teachers, angering protestersIf the bill is signed into law, it would be the biggest expansion of gun access in the state since last year's deadly shooting at a private elementary school in Nashville.U.S. NewsApr 23, 2024
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At least 14 dead in Texas, Louisiana as heat wave scorches southern U.S.The National Weather Service warned that the dry, hot, windy conditions were ripe for dangerous fires in parts of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah.U.S. NewsJun 28, 2023
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