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What Did Christa Pike Do? What to Know About the Botched Tennessee Execution.

Ms. Pike, 50, survived two doses of a lethal injection in Tennessee. She was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of a classmate.

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Media witnesses recounted the moments before the execution of Christa Pike was halted on Wednesday.
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Federal Judge Orders Texas to Air-Condition Its Prisons

The lack of air-conditioning in most of the state’s prisons violates the U.S. Constitution, the judge ruled. He ordered the state to cool all of its lockups by the end of 2029.

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People protest over conditions caused by extreme heat in Texas jail cells at the Texas State Capitol in Austin in 2023.
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