by Amy Goodman | Oct 2, 2026 | Capital Punishment, Christa Pike, Death Penalty, death sentence, Execution, Interview, Lethal Injection, Tennessee
Tennessee’s Governor Bill Lee has halted executions for the remainder of the year after a death row prisoner survived two lethal injections on Wednesday. According to her lawyers, Christa Pike was still breathing after she was strapped to a gurney and injected with two syringes of pentobarbital in a botched execution that spanned more than two hours. Prior to the scheduled execution…
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by Nayanika Guha | Dec 27, 2025 | Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, death sentence, Executions, Florida, News Analysis, Pam Bondi, Ron DeSantis
Edward Zakrzewski’s wife had known him since they were in the fourth grade. Growing up in the same neighborhood in Michigan, she and Zakrzewski had a close friendship. “I always had a crush on him, but I always knew that he was a ladies’ man in high school, and I was a good girl, so I wasn’t having that,” she said. As happens with many childhood friendships, they lost touch when her family moved…
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