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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – A week after receiving two doses of pentobarbital in an attempted execution, Tennessee convicted murderer Christa Pike is walking and eating a regular diet, her attorneys said.
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Reporting from Just the News
Pike's attorneys said they were told that their client was brain-dead on Monday but that by Tuesday she was awake and talking to her medical team, though she was confused and disoriented at first.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Atlanta-based DC BLOX is filing an amended complaint in its challenge to data center regulations enacted by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County after it applied for a data center project, the company told The Center Square.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – An attorney for Tennessee convicted murderer Christa Pike said personnel worked for more than an hour before abandoning Pike's Sept. 30 attempted execution and transferring her to a private hospital.
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Reporting from Just the News
The development comes after Pike was on a ventilator last week after she survived two rounds of injections of the lethal drug pentobarbital.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Nearly a week after the state tried to execute her for a 1995 murder, Christa Pike's attorneys said she is awake and talking.
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(Legal Newsline) – Tennessee will not let non-attorneys own shares of law firms, closing – for now – the question of whether doing so would help residents obtain legal services or whether it would cause more harm than good.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The resignation of Department of Corrections Commissioner Frank Strada and an investigation into the failed execution of Christa Pike may not answer all the questions about why the state has not carried out two executions this year, Pike's attorneys said.
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(The Center Square) – Red states lead in national education integrity ratings based on issues like parental rights, DEI, gender and sexuality policies and more, while blue states generally rank toward the bottom, a new report from Defending Education shows.
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Reporting from Just the News
The attorneys said Pike is critically ill and both of her arms were swollen, burned and blistered from the injections when she arrived at the hospital. She reportedly survived at least two full doses of the lethal drug, pentobarbital.
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