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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Dobkin

Tennessee death row inmate gets one-year reprieve after Christa Pike debacle

Tennessee death row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton has been granted a one-year reprieve two months before he was set to be executed as state officials search for answers to Christa Pike’s disastrous, failed lethal injections.

Republican Gov. Bill Lee announced earlier this month that executions will be paused for the rest of the year as a third-party review of Pike’s botched execution is carried out.

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