{
  "id": 11101840,
  "title": "Tennessee woman still alive after attempts to execute her, lawyers say",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/tennessee-woman-still-alive-after-attempts-to-execute-her-lawyers-say-11101840",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-01T03:57:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Age",
    "slug": "the-age",
    "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/tennessee-woman-still-alive-after-attempts-to-execute-her-lawyers-say-20261001-p61236.html?ref=rss"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Christa Pike, a 50-year-old woman, was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in Tennessee for murdering a schoolmate in 1995 when she was 18 years old. According to The Hill, lawyers for Pike said she was still alive after being administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs, specifically pentobarbital, at 8:26 p.m. local time.\n\nPike's case had been the subject of dramatic legal wrangling, with a temporary court-ordered pause being granted and then lifted by the US Supreme Court, which ruled that Tennessee could proceed with the execution. The Supreme Court's decision, made by a 6-3 conservative majority, allowed the execution to move forward after a three-judge panel of the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals had granted a short stay to consider Pike's claims of childhood trauma and sexual abuse.\n\nPike's clemency petition was denied by Governor Bill Lee on Monday, and she would have been the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in 200 years and the only person in the modern era of US capital punishment to be executed in Tennessee for a crime committed as a teenager.",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
        "title": "Tennessee woman still alive after attempts to execute her, lawyers say",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/tennessee-woman-still-alive-after-attempts-to-execute-her-lawyers-say",
        "published": "2026-10-01T03:57:55.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}