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Received — 1 October 2026 ⏭

Tennessee governor halts executions after Christa Pike survives two lethal injections

✇El País - English
By: Abel Fernández · AP Associated Press
1 October 2026 at 16:42

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has halted the one remaining execution for 2026 after a woman named Christa Pike on Wednesday survived two injections of pentobarbital, a situation described as unprecedented.

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Christa Pike in an image released by the Tennessee Department of Corrections.
Received — 30 September 2026 ⏭

Execution of Christa Pike halted at the last minute by a Tennessee appeals court

✇El País - English
By: Abel Fernández
30 September 2026 at 16:57

The state of Tennessee has ordered a stay on the execution of a woman who was sentenced to death for the murder of a fellow student when she was 18. If it had been carried out as planned on Wednesday, Christa Pike, now 50, would have been be the first woman put to death in the mid-southeastern state in more than two centuries.

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Protesters call for clemency for Christa Pike in Tennessee on September 29.
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