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Tennessee halts scheduled executions after inmate survives lethal injection

Christa Pike, who was convicted in a brutal 1995 killing, continued breathing after she was given two doses of lethal injection drugs, her lawyers said

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Tennessee halts scheduled executions after inmate survives lethal injection

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