Her client survived execution months before Christa Pike

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Oct 2, 202600:56:40News & Politics

We hear from a lawyer whose client lived through a botched lethal injection in Tennessee just a few months before the state made another failed attempt to execute an inmate this week. Days before Quebeckers go to the pol...

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