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Tennessee halts scheduled executions after inmate survives lethal injection

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Christa Pike, who was convicted in a brutal 1995 killing, continued breathing after she was given two doses of lethal injection drugs, her lawyers said.

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Both outlets center on the federal appeals court stopping Christa Pike’s execution at the last minute. The Washington Post frames it as a block “with hours to spare” and notes the 6th Circuit’s intervention, while France 24 foregrounds the timing more sharply, saying the halt came “less than two hours before” the lethal injection. France 24 alone adds that the stay was described as “short” and briefly mentions Pike’s claims.

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