In Thursday’s Michigan Senate debate, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed called his opponent “weak,” “cowardly” and a “sockpuppet for the Trump administration.” Republican Mike Rogers called his opponent a “glitchy AI chatbot” who is running a “con” and will “say anything to win.” The two candidates in one of the country’s most closely watched midterm contests spent…
Christa Pike‘s attorneys said she has pneumonia, a blood clot, couldn’t swallow, and is unable to move her arms or hands once she regained consciousness in a Tennessee hospital, days after the death row inmate survived a botched execution by the state. “Her hands looked like if you were to blow up a surgical glove,”…
Christa Pike, a death row inmate who was subject to a failed execution attempt in Tennessee last week, is conscious and speaking from her hospital bed, her attorneys said Tuesday. Pike survived the state’s Sept. 30 attempt to execute her by lethal injection at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. She has been hospitalized since….
Christa Pike, the death row inmate who last week survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her, remained hospitalized on a ventilator Monday, according to her attorney. He said it was still unclear whether Pike would regain consciousness but urged the state to “take death off the table” by commuting her sentence, renewing an earlier request that…
The head of Tennessee’s prison system is set to resign after the botched execution of Christa Pike earlier this week, Gov. Bill Lee announced Saturday. Lee said that Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada will step down this month, but did not offer any other specifics. Strada said in a statement that he believes…
Christa Pike is unconscious and using a ventilator to breathe two days after a botched execution by lethal injection in Tennessee, her lawyers said Friday in a new statement and court filing. Pike “remains critically ill” and is receiving medical care at a Nashville-area hospital, her attorneys said. The new court filing requests an order…
Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, received two doses of a lethal drug in a Nashville execution chamber Wednesday night. But she didn’t die. Although her survival was “unparalleled,” as one expert said, it was the latest example of a botched execution attempt involving lethal injections in Tennessee and elsewhere around the…
Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike, the only woman on its death row, by lethal injection on Wednesday. If the procedure happens as scheduled, Pike would also become the only woman executed in the state in the last 200 years. Now 50, Pike has been incarcerated since 1995 for the murder that year of…
The AI bubble that has propelled U.S. stocks to record highs is starting to deflate, according to some Wall Street analysts. “There are plenty of signs that we are now in the late stages of a bubble in AI,” John Higgins, chief economic adviser for financial markets at Capital Economics, said in a report on Monday. …
A Florida company that was established in May won an unusual and potentially lucrative deal to be the only business permitted to stock the commissaries of the Bureau of Prisons’ 118 institutions with flavored nicotine pouches. Undated photo of mindSHFT nicotine pouches Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News The brand of 6-mg pouches being sold…
