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Tennessee inmate Christa Pike's execution halted an hour beforehand

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Death row inmate Christa Pike got a last-minute reprieve Wednesday when a federal appeals court stopped her execution about an hour before it was set to take place in Nashville. The latest: The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered "a short stay of execution" before 9am CDT so it could consider

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Both outlets center the federal appeals court blocking Christa Pike’s execution at the last minute. The Washington Post frames it as a federal court intervention “with hours to spare,” while France 24 says the order came “less than two hours before” the lethal injection. France 24 alone adds that Pike would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than two centuries and notes the stay was to give the court time to consider her claims.

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