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Christa Pike is back in Tennessee prison after surviving the state's Sept. 30 lethal-injection attempt, in which two doses of pentobarbital failed to kill her. Tennessee has halted its remaining 2026 executions and ordered an independent review, prison commissioner Frank Strada has resigned, a judge has ordered preservation of execution evidence, and Pike's attorneys are seeking commutation of her death sentence; a new court filing says the IV team warned her veins may have ruptured before the注射
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