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<p>A woman convicted of murdering a schoolmate 30 years ago has been taken to hospital after surviving two rounds of lethal injections in Tennessee. Christa Pike would have been the first woman to be executed in the state in 200 years. Pike, 50, has spent three decades on death row after she was convicted of the murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995. A last-minute appeal to stop the lethal injection was overturned by the supreme court, but the state governor, Bill Lee, has suspended executions in Tennessee for the rest of the year. Lucy Hough speaks to the attorney and anti-capital punishment campaigner Clive Stafford Smith – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@todayinfocuspodcast" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">watch on YouTube</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/oct/01/us-woman-christa-pike-death-row-survives-lethal-injections-tennessee-the-latest" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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