Christa Pike’s legal team argued this summer that her health conditions could make her execution painful and difficult.
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Alexis Marshall is WPLN News’s education reporter. She is a Middle Tennessee native and started listening to WPLN as a high schooler in Murfreesboro. She got her start in public radio freelance producing for NPR and reporting at WMOT, the on-campus station at MTSU. She was the reporting intern at WPLN News in the fall of 2018 and afterward an intern on NPR’s Education Desk. Alexis returned to WPLN in 2020 as a newscast producer and took over the education beat in 2022. Marshall contributes regularly to WPLN's partnership with Nashville Noticias, a Spanish language news program, and studies Arabic. When she's not reporting, you can find her cooking, crocheting or foraging for mushrooms.
Gov. Lee halts execution, orders third-party review following Pike’s failed lethal injection
Tennessee’s governor is ordering a comprehensive review of Tennessee’s second botched execution this year.
Report finds 14 ‘forgotten children’ buried at former youth corrections facility in Tennessee
Georgetown University’s Forgotten Children Initiative has released a map documenting more than 1,000 deaths at 40 youth corrections facilities across the country.
Drugs, monkeys, squirrels and a hoax: 5 eyebrow-raising moments in Tennessee history
We’re taking a look at oddities in Tennessee history from an archaeological hoax to drug smuggling and literal monkey business.
Thousands of Memphians without power after strong weekend storm
A severe bow echo storm initially knocked out power for 140,000 customers in Memphis. Full restoration is expected to take several days.
4 times Tennessee’s early leaders behaved badly
Nobody’s perfect. That’s true even for people in public office. For as long as there have been politicians, there have been political scandals and controversies. And Tennessee is no exception.
5 times Tennessee influenced the USA as it celebrates 250 years
From constitutional amendments to airport security, see how Tennessee history has shaped the nation as we know it.
GOP leaders blast plan to fund immigrant nonprofit in Metro budget
High-ranking Republicans criticized the proposal online. The mayor’s office and nonprofit say funds would help people maintain their legal status.
Turning points in Tennessee history from the NashVillager Podcast
From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement, here are four times Tennessee history was changed forever.
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