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Gov. Bill Lee pauses Gary Sutton execution after Christa Pike fails to die

Gov. Bill Lee ordered a review and has paused the other execution scheduled for this year. Gary Wayne Sutton maintains his innocence.

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Knoxville News-Sentinel· Oct 1, 12:01 PMGov. Bill Lee pauses Gary Sutton execution after Christa Pike fails to die

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Christa Pike Alive; Tennessee Governor Stops ExecutionsTennessee Gov. Bill Lee canceled state executions after Christa Pike, the only woman on the state's death row, survived two lethal injections

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What did Christa Pike do? Crime case put her in Tennessee death rowChrista Pike was a student at the Knoxville Job Corps, a federal job training program, when she brutally killed fellow student Colleen Slemmer in 1995.

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