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Reporting from Just the News
Activist hub directs reporter, masquerading as Tennessee mom of 11-year-old nonbinary girl, to providers who confirm they use misleading diagnosis codes to hide purpose of prescription, mail drugs directly to homes.
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Reporting from Just the News
Pike, who was convicted of killing former classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995 when she was just 18 years old, claimed last week that she is in constant pain from the botched execution.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Gov. Bill Lee appointed an interim commissioner at the Tennessee Department of Correction, but who will take the helm of the department permanently will likely be up to the next governor.
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Reporting from Just the News
The inmate was given the death penalty, which authorities attempted to carry out earlier this month, but she survived two doses of the lethal injection pentobarbital.
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Reporting from Just the News
“I continue to think about my victim’s family and the terrible pain and loss they have endured," Christa Pike said in her first public statements since her botched execution last month.
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(The Center Square) – Convicted murderer Christa Pike said in a statement released through her attorneys on Friday morning that she is in pain every day after her failed execution on Sept. 30.
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Reporting from Just the News
Despite pleas from Christa Pike's attorneys to have her sentence commuted to life without parole following the botched execution, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Pike remains incarcerated and her sentence is unlikely to change.
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Reporting from Just the News
Despite pleas from her attorneys to have her sentence commuted to life without parole following the botched execution, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Pike remains incarcerated and her sentence is unlikely to change.
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Blackburn's full term ends in 2028.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – More than 1 million people cast their ballots early in Tennessee through Tuesday, surpassing 2022 totals by 48.04%, according to the secretary of state's office.
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