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Blackburn calls for electric chair after Christa Pike’s lethal injection fails

Blackburn calls for electric chair after Christa Pike’s lethal injection fails
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What This Story Is About U.S. Senator and gubernatorial candidate Marsha Blackburn called for Tennessee to bring back the electric chair following the failed lethal injection execution of death row inmate Christa Pike. Why It Matters Pike, convicted in the 1995 torture and murder of Colleen Slemm...

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