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Tennessee inmate Christa Pike still alive after lethal injection dose, lawyers say

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Lawyers for Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike said she was still alive Wednesday night after being administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs. Pike's federal public defenders wrote in a motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court that witnesses reported she had been given doses of pentobarb

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All three outlets focus on the same unusual core claim: lawyers say Christa Pike remained alive after lethal-injection drugs were administered, with The Hill and the BBC foregrounding the attorneys’ account. The New York Times adds the most context in its extract, noting Pike’s 1995 murder conviction and that officials proceeded after a temporary court-ordered pause. Only the BBC says she was in hospital.

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