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Christa Pike botched execution halts Tennessee death penalty for year

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee halted the death penalty statewide after Christa Pike's botched lethal injection, pausing convicted double murderer Gary Wayne Sutton's Dec. 3 execution.

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