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Tennessee governor orders outside investigation and halts executions after inmate survives lethal injection attempt
October 01, 2026
Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. A death penalty expert said it was an unprecedented failure.
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