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  "id": 11322148,
  "title": "'Haven't seen anything like it,' witness says on Pike's failed execution",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/havent-seen-anything-like-it-witness-says-on-pikes-failed-execution-11322148",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-02T00:54:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
    "slug": "the-sydney-morning-herald",
    "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/world/havent-seen-anything-like-it-witness-says-on-pikes-failed-execution-20261002-p612ba.html?ref=rss"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder, media witnesses said, after the lethal injection was halted for hours as courts considered a last-minute appeal of what would have been the state’s first execution of a woman in at least 200 years.",
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      {
        "outlet": "BusinessDay Nigeria",
        "title": "What to know about the failed execution attempt of US death row prisoner Christa Pike",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/what-to-know-about-the-failed-execution-attempt-of-us-death-row",
        "published": "2026-10-01T15:49:46.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Axios",
        "title": "Christa Pike's execution failed. Here's how lethal injection works",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/christa-pikes-execution-failed-heres-how-lethal-injection-works",
        "published": "2026-10-01T18:49:38.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Age",
        "title": "'Haven't seen anything like it,' witness says on Pike's failed execution",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/havent-seen-anything-like-it-witness-says-on-pikes-failed-execution",
        "published": "2026-10-02T00:54:22.000Z"
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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."
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