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Christa Pike's lawyer on her botched execution and the state's investigation into it

NPR | By Michel Martin
Published October 2, 2026 at 2:44 AM MDT

NPR's Michel Martin asks Randy Spivey, a lawyer representing a death row inmate who survived two lethal injections, about Tennessee's handling of executions.

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