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Tennessee governor suspends all executions after Christa Pike’s lethal injections fail

Independent inquiry ordered after halted execution of Pike, who was convicted of murder Tennessee ’s governor has suspended all executions in the state until at least the end of the year and ordered an independent inquiry after a botched attempt to put a condemned inmate to death…

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