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Christa Pike Alive; Tennessee Governor Stops Executions

Tennessee 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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Gov. Bill Lee pauses Gary Sutton execution after Christa Pike fails to dieGov. 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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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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Christa Pike’s botched execution spares another inmate from being put to deathGary Wayne Sutton, who was scheduled to be executed on Dec. 3, is having his death put on pause after Tennessee Governor Bill Lee halted the death penalty throughout the state until the end of the year.

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