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With the astonishing news that Christa Pike is conscious, talking and making a medically unprecedented recovery following her botched execution , Tennessee is now facing a critical question: Will the state try to kill her again? Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking,and continues to receivecriticalmedical care, her attorneys said in a statement on Oct. 6. Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery. So far, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has not responded to repeated calls from Pike's attorneys and death penalty observers to commute her sentence to life in prison. That leaves open the possibility that Pike will face a second execution, even after her attorneys said the first attempt on Sept. 30 amounted to unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment. Were in uncharted territory, said Robin Maher, executive director of the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, which does not take a stance on the death penalty. The U.S. Supreme Court has not decided whether a second execution attempt would violate the constitution since 1947, Maher told USA TODAY. These are questions that have never needed to be asked before and no one knows the answers. As Pike continues to recover in a Tennessee hospital, USA TODAY is looking at the issues that state officials will need to weigh when deciding whether Pike will live or die. When did the Supreme Court last address a second execution? The last time the Supreme Court addressed whether an inmate who survived an execution would face another one was nearly 80 years ago in 1947. The case involved Willie Francis, a 17-year-old Black teen convicted of murder by an all-white jury for a crime committed when he was 16. His first execution inside the local parish jail in St. Martinville, Louisiana, was halted when the portable electric chair known as Gruesome Gertie failed to deliver enough current. It was widely reported that the electrical mechanism malfunctioned due to improper setup by a drunken prison guard. Witnesses said Francis screamed Take it off! Take it off! Let me breathe! from behind his leather hood. The execution was aborted, and an appeal was filed to the Supreme Court. Francis spent the next year back on death row awaiting a decision from the Supreme Court about whether a second electrocution would be unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The court justices ruled that the state could put Francis back in the electric chair, writing that accidents happen for which no man is to blame. Even the fact that (Francis) has already been subjected to a current of electricity does not make his subsequent execution any more cruel in the constitutional sense than any other execution, the Supreme Court concluded. The cruelty against which the Constitution protects a convicted man is cruelty inherent in the method of punishment, not the necessary suffering involved in any method employed to extinguish life humanely. Francis was successfully executed in the electric chair on May 9, 1947. He told reporter Elliott Chaze a few days before the execution that he was going to meet the Lord with his Sunday pants and Sunday heart. Experts: Pike's case differs from 1947 case There's a huge difference between what happened to Francis in 1947 and what happened to Pike last week, said Columbia Law School's BernardHarcourt , who is writing a book about a botched lethal injection in Alabama involving an inmate he represented. Whats interesting about that case is that the Supreme Court said it was an accident and, You get to do it again, Harcourt told USA TODAY. Christa Pike wasnt an accident. They knew. They had information from her lawyers, who told them, Youre going to have a hard time getting to her veins . Nearly 10 months before the Pike's botched execution, Pike's attorneys warned Tennessee that personnel would have trouble with Pike's unusually small veins and would struggle to deliver a fatal dose of pentobarbital. They repeated those warnings up until her execution. Because of that, Harcourt said, if Tennessee seeks to try to execute Pike again, it would arguably violate double jeopardy. Maher of the Death Penalty Information Center agreed that a second attempt would likely be unconstitutional. Of all the unknowns we have at the moment, the only thing Im certain of is that she should not be subject to a second one, Maher said. She has already endured a torturous experience in that execution chamber. Chaos in the death chamber: Timeline of Christa Pike's botched execution Tennessee governor hasn't ruled out 2nd execution for previous botch In May, Tennessee botched another execution. Tony Carruthers survived after executioners failed to establish a second IV line required under the state's execution protocol. The doctor carrying out the lethal injection also unsuccessfully tried to place a central line. After Carruthers spent more than an hour strapped down waiting to die, the state abandoned the execution. Lee granted Carruthers a rare one-year reprieve, leaving open the option to try to execute him again. In a lawsuit filed in July , his family said that they believe Carruthers suffered a brain stroke and that the entire right side of his body was left paralyzed. His attorneys argue that he's suffered enough and that the governor should commute his sentence. He has not. As for Pike's botched execution, Lee ordered an investigation into what went wrong, called off the state's only remaining lethal injection this year and announced the upcoming resignation of Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada . Lee has not granted Pike a reprieve similar to Carruthers' and has not indicated what the future holds for her. He hasn't spoken publicly about the matter since Oct. 1, the day after the botched execution. Lee called the failure a deeply disturbing tragedy that should never have happened. He also reiterated his commitment to the death penalty. My responsibility is to uphold the sentences that Tennessee juries have handed down, even when it's difficult, and that is exactly what we intend to do in the days ahead, Lee said. The people of Tennessee have determined that the death penalty is the appropriate penalty for the most heinous crimes in the state. The people of Tennessee make that decision, and my job is to make sure then that those sentences are carried out. A recap of the case Tennessee was supposed to execute Pike, 50, by lethal injection on Sept. 30 for the brutal and prolonged 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. The execution failed after Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital injections and was taken to a Nashville-area hospital. A timeline of the chaos in the death chamber compiled by USA TODAY shows that the state tried to kill Pike for over an hour before rushing to save her. Her attorneys say they believe that Pike's IV lines were improperly placed or that Pike's veins had blown, causing some or all of the pentobarbital to enter her arm rather than her bloodstream. The state has not said why Pike's execution failed. Pike was 18 when she and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, luredSlemmer into the woods in Knoxville on Jan. 12, 1995. Prosecutors said Pike and Shipp tortured and killed Slemmer, who was her romantic rival. Pike cut Slemmer's throat and crushed her skull with a rock, later showing off a piece of the skull. Slemmer's mother, May Martinez, witnessed Pike's failed execution. Martinez previously told People Magazine that Pike had never apologized for her daughter's death and that she wanted to finally see justice. Contributing: Kelly Puente , Nashville Tennessean Amanda Lee Myers is a senior crime and courts reporter who covers the death penalty, cold cases and breaking news for USA TODAY. Follow her on X at @amandaleeusat . This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Will Tennessee try to execute Christa Pike again? They might. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY at https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/10/06/tennessee-execution-christa-pike-second-attempt-botch/92127144007/
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She has recovered to a certain degree that she's able to be off a ventilator and able to speak, but in no way would I announce her free of further serious risk, he said. There's still a lot of bad things that can happen here. Fallout from the failed execution has brought intense scrutiny to Tennessee's execution procedures. Gov. Bill Lee suspended the one remaining execution scheduled for this year and announced that the state's top prison official would be stepping down. In a statement, Correction Commissioner Frank Strada said resigning was in the best interest of Tennesseans while an independent review examines what happened on Sept. 30. Strada will leave at the end of October, and an interim commissioner will be named later, Lee said. Pike's lawyers said the resignation is justified, but it does nothing to help Christa now. What happened to her Wednesday reflects a systemic failure that goes far beyond any one person, they said in a statement, according to ABC News. I think at the very least the governor should commute Ms. Pike's death sentence to a life sentence, attorney Stephen Ferrell said on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday. We don't know what her physical state will be, but it is clear that she has endured a torturous attempt at executing her. Pike, 50, was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of her classmate, Colleen Slemmer. Her execution was scheduled to be carried out after 30 years on death row. But the execution was called off after the drugs she was administered did not kill her. She was taken to the hospital, where she received life-saving care. Both of Pike's arms were swollen, burned, and blistered when she arrived at the hospital, her lawyers wrote in a legal filing. Her lawyers believe the IV lines were placed incorrectly or her veins burst, so that some or all of the drug went into the tissue of her arms instead of her bloodstream. Christa Pike, pictured in January 2023. Tennessee Department of Correction via AP The filing asks a state court to order the Tennessee Department of Correction to preserve all evidence from the execution attempt. Last night was not just inefficient, it was cruel, and it was torturous, attorney Randy Spivey said the day after the execution attempt. It was also predictable. Spivey said Pike's legal team warned the state of Tennessee and the courts that her medical condition of thrombocytosis would cause her to suffer an agonizing death. They said it could increase clotting and pain during the execution process and that her veins are difficult to access. Pike's attorneys said the state and the court dismissed their client's concerns. In audio recordings obtained by the New York Times , Pike had said two weeks before she was due to be executed that she was concerned about the lethal injection, citing a recent botched execution attempt in Tennessee of Tony Carruthers in May, when staff were unable to locate a vein. Tony Carruthers lived out my worst nightmare, Pike can be heard saying in the audio, which was shared by her lawyers. I do not have good veins,' she said. And I don't want to go through that. She was not seeking to delay her execution, attorney Stephen Ferrell told reporters on Oct. 1. She was seeking to have that execution performed humanely and as quickly and as painlessly as possible. Following the failed execution, Lee ordered a comprehensive, third-party review to determine exactly what occurred and said that another execution scheduled for Dec. 3 later this year had been paused. This is a tragedy, he said. There is no one who wanted what happened last night to happen. It's deeply disturbing to me that this has happened in this state. Pike's attorneys said in response that the governor's independent review doesn't go far enough after being in solitary confinement for more than 20 years and the botched execution attempt. Christa has endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty, Spivey said. The governor must commute Christa's sentence now. May Martinez, the mother of Pike's victim, Colleen Slemmer, told NBC News the execution attempt had been a mess, adding, They didn't say anything, and then, all of a sudden, they asked all the victims to leave. We didn't know anything until we got up to the office and saw the commissioner. And he said that it didn't work ... and she's on her way to the hospital. U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, the state's Republican candidate for governor, said Tennessee should look at other forms of execution. If it's lethal injection, if it is electric chair, what we do know is we have to find a way to do this and do it successfully, she told The Associated Press. What happens next? Tennessee officials have not said whether they will try to execute Pike again, or explained what went wrong. Her condition could complicate any future attempt. Under Supreme Court precedent, a person can't be executed unless they have a rational understanding of why they are being put to death, the New York Times reported . Dr. Joel Zivot, an Emory University anesthesiologist retained by Pike's defense team, told the BBC it is very possible she suffered a brain injury because resuscitation was delayed. Pike's lawyers have asked Lee to commute her sentence to life in prison. Lee had denied her clemency before the execution attempt. President Trump questioned how the execution could have failed, telling reporters it shouldn't be very difficult, according to AFP . United Nations human rights chief Volker Trk urged Tennessee not to try again. What happened during the execution attempt? Pike had been scheduled for execution at 10 a.m. Wednesday for killing Slemmer in 1995, at the age of 18. She would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. An appeals court stopped the lethal injection just an hour before it was to start, a stay that was subsequently overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Media witnesses said officials raised the curtains to the execution chamber at 7:27 p.m., showing Pike strapped to a gurney. I'm going to leave this world the way I spent most of my life, and that is in love, she said in her last words. However, Pike remained conscious after the first dose. Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale said she lifted her head off the gurney at 7:54 p.m. She also reportedly asked prison officials if her arm was supposed to feel that way. Tori Gessner, a journalist with WKRN News 2 in Nashville, said Pike was seen pointing at her arm and asking, Does this happen like that? By 8:26 p.m., witnesses reported that the second dose of pentobarbital had been administered. Pike continued to be heard snoring behind the closed curtain until the microphone was cut off at 8:53 p.m. At that time, an announcement was made to escort media witnesses out of the area. Pike's legal team said in a statement to the Tennessean newspaper on Wednesday night, We take no pleasure in being right, but the concerns raised by Ms Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy. Robin M. Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said what Pike experienced was singular and unparalleled. Seven other people have survived medical problems caused by an execution team's failure to access a vein to administer lethal injection drugs, but no one has remained alive after receiving the drugs used in such executions, she said. I've witnessed, I believe, five executions in Tennessee, Gessner said. Nothing about today was normal, typical at all, and the court delay was just the tip of the iceberg. A source told NBC News that there was no medical oxygen or mask in the execution chamber, meaning they had to be brought in from a prison clinic. Some of the medication had worn off by the third time staff checked on Pike, the source added. The Tennessee Department of Correction said that it followed every step of the state's lawful, established execution protocol approved by the attorney general's office. The state's execution protocol calls for a secondary set of drug syringes to be administered if the inmate is not deceased after the first set. It does not specify what happens if the subject is still alive after the second set. Lawyers for Pike filed an emergency motion late Wednesday with the Tennessee Supreme Court seeking to immediately halt and stay the execution, saying she was in unnecessary agony and that the execution was violating her right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. They also filed motions in the Sixth Circuit and a district court. Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 after being convicted of first-degree murder of Colleen Slemmer the previous year on the University of Tennessee Agricultural campus. According to legal documents filed with the Supreme Court , Pike tortured, and killed Colleen Slemmer on Jan. 12, 1995 because Pike just felt mean that day. Pike is reported to have cut Colleen's throat multiple times and crushed her skull with a piece of asphalt. Pike was also convicted of attempted first-degree murder after trying to strangle fellow inmate Patricia Jones in 2001. Who is Frank Strada? Strada took over Tennessee's Department of Correction in January 2023 after serving as deputy director of Arizona's prison system. In late 2024, he announced Tennessee would switch to a single execution drug, pentobarbital. Death penalty lawyers told the Guardian that Pike's was the fifth botched execution Strada had overseen in two states since 2022. That count includes Tennessee's failed attempt to execute Tony Carruthers in May, when staff couldn't find a vein, and three 2022 executions in Arizona in which teams struggled to place IV lines. Kit Thomas, a death row attorney, told the Guardian that training requirements for execution teams were loosened under Strada. He reduced the training requirements and we've seen disastrous results, Thomas said. A day before announcing the resignation, Lee defended the department, telling reporters, So far as we know, the Department of Correction followed exactly the protocol that was outlined. How common are botched executions? According to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), there were 75 botched lethal injections between 1982 and 2010. Compared to other methods, lethal injections face complications at a significantly higher rate. There have been a number of botched executions since 2010 that don't appear in the DPIC's tally. Most of these were executions that went wrong in some way, but still ended in death. But there are seven known instances in which an execution failed entirely. One of them was earlier this year in Tennessee, when staff were unable to find a vein to administer the lethal drugs to inmate Tony Carruthers. Tony Carruthers was scheduled to be executed on May 21, 2026. Tennessee Department of Correction via AP More than 20 pharmaceutical companies have also refused to have their products used in executions, which has left states struggling to find the drugs they need to perform lethal injections. In some cases, they have experimented with unproven alternatives, with disastrous results. An Oklahoma prisoner named Michael Lee Wilson said he could feel his whole body burning as he was being executed using a controversial drug cocktail in 2014. There have also been instances of prisoners gasping for air , heaving and coughing , convulsing and being subjected to three hours of pain before finally dying. In April 2022, Tennessee called off the execution of Oscar Smith about an hour before it was scheduled to begin after the state discovered that its lethal injection drugs had not been properly tested. An independent investigation found that the state had repeatedly failed to follow its own drug-testing protocols between 2018 and 2022. Tennessee then revised its protocol, resuming executions in May 2025 and using a single, lethal drug: pentobarbital. There's also growing evidence that lethal injection may not provide a peaceful death even when everything appears to go right. Difficulties with lethal injections have led some states to revive previously discarded execution methods. South Carolina carried out three executions by firing squad last year. There had been three total firing squad executions in the U.S. in the previous half-century combined. There were 47 executions in 2025 , according to the DPIC, higher than the recent average of fewer than 30 per year. These included the lethal injection of South Carolina inmate Marion Bowman , who received twice the intended drug dose, and Tennessee inmate Byron Black , who reportedly showed sustained cardiac activity for nearly two minutes after prison staff pronounced him dead. This article originally appeared on Yahoo News at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/christa-pikes-prognosis-still-unknown-as-her-lawyer-calls-for-sentence-to-be-commuted-take-death-off-the-table-081613268.html
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a press conference at the House of Collections in Reykjavik, Iceland, on October 6, 2026. - Mark Schiefelbein/Pool/AFP/Getty Images The Trump administration is struggling to get clear answers about the death of a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague, amid days of stonewalling from Russian officials about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the episode. The death of the technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia immediately raised alarms throughout the administration, prompting a race to compile intel and plot for a potential public health response, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. But Russias reluctance to share information about the incident has complicated those efforts, leaving officials uncertain what broader risks it could pose and how exactly to defend the US against them. Its incumbent upon Russia to obviously share more information with the world, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday . Maybe its bigger than we thought. We dont know, but I think it would be reckless at this moment, given the limited information we still have, to speculate. US officials were in touch with the Russian government as early as last Friday, a State Department official said, including contact between the departments health experts and the Russian Foreign Ministry. And that outreach has continued, an administration official said, as Rubio expressed hope Tuesday that the limited information sharing will change in the next few hours and days. President Donald Trump told reporters outside the White House Tuesday afternoon that he had call scheduled to speak with Russian leader Vladimir Putin about the issue very soon. He added US agencies would have more information to report probably tomorrow. But the US has gotten limited cooperation so far. What little information has come out of Russia has faced deep skepticism, with officials unconvinced that the Kremlin is being fully forthcoming, according to people familiar with the situation. Still, until the administration knows more through intelligence collection and diplomatic outreach, officials are not taking steps such as putting travel restrictions into place to prevent any potential spread, according to a US official. The US already advises against travel to Russia due to various factors, including the possibility of wrongful detention and the war with Ukraine. Among the critical questions still outstanding: whether the 28-year-old lab worker who died last week contracted pneumonic plague a severe but treatable infection or another, unknown infectious disease. Staff at the Anti-Plague Institute study a range of other dangerous diseases, including cholera, anthrax and brucellosis, according to the institutes website . US officials have also sought details on whether the disease was modified in any way, a process called gain of function that could dramatically alter the way the US and other countries might respond. Rubio and other Trump officials have publicly downplayed the immediate threat to Americans, emphasizing that the administration is closely monitoring the situation and that pneumonic plague is treatable with antibiotics. But behind the scenes, there is deep unease within the administration over the continued lack of insight, the people familiar with the situation said. Compounding those concerns is the Russian governments outsized response, including quarantining the hospital where the lab worker was treated, according to the mayor of the Shelekhovsky district. Nearly 200 people are under observation , a regional news outlet reported. The entrance to the grounds of the anti-plague institute in the city of Irkutsk, Russia, on October 6, 2026. - AFP/Getty Images We dont know a lot right now about what actually happened, said one US official. But one thing most of us feel certain about: The Russians are going to act like the Chinese did with Covid. They wont be forthcoming. Still, Trump on Monday characterized the situation as a big problem for Russia, suggesting that the US might need to provide some unspecified level of aid. In a statement, a State Department spokesperson said that several federal agencies were closely monitoring the fatal case of suspected pneumonic plague, but that many of the details surrounding it remained unconfirmed. They reiterated that Americans have long been advised not to travel to Russia for any reason. We encourage Russian authorities to share accurate information quickly and openly, the spokesperson said. In the days since the lab workers death, the National Security Council and State Department officials have led the administrations push to gather information, piece together what happened and evaluate the potential risks, officials and others familiar with the situation said. Federal health agencies, including the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, have also been involved in the cross-government effort. A source familiar with the outreach said Trump officials have also backchanneled with the World Health Organization the international health body that Trump pulled funding from soon after taking office, but that the government has continued to communicate with in emergency situations. WHO said Monday that it was in contact with Russian authorities to verify details about the lab workers death, though it has so far also received little information. If theyre not transparent, if theyre not open to independent accountability, how is it possible to trust the Kremlin is telling us the full and accurate information? said Lawrence Gostin, a global health law professor at Georgetown University who has worked closely with WHO. Clearly, on its face, the lab was conducting extremely high-risk research and using shoddy biosafety measures. The Anti-Plague Institutes relatively remote location in eastern Russia, combined with the pneumonic plagues limited ability to quickly spread, has given health experts some comfort that any immediate threat can be contained. Pneumonic plague is a bacterial infection , unlike the highly transmissible coronavirus strain that sparked the 2020 pandemic. And while the plague is fatal if untreated, there are now effective and widely available antibiotics to treat it. While there is little indication that the incident will touch off another global health crisis, officials and outside experts said it has nevertheless reinforced how difficult it can be to monitor and prepare for potential biological threats. The Health and Human Services Department may have the medical stockpile necessary to combat conventional pneumonic plague, those officials and experts said. But theres little certainty whether it could do the same against a modified version or how long it would take to develop a treatment if needed. Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiology professor and director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health, said the episode also comes as health response capabilities both in the US and globally have been diminished by funding cuts and the strain of responding to other crises. WHO has proposed slashing its budget following a $600 million shortfall triggered by the US exit. Americas ability to handle a new public health response, meanwhile, is severely diminished amid its efforts to combat measles outbreaks, she said. We are talking about a very depleted system. God forbid you layer another pathogen onto the already laborious and difficult work of going after measles, said Nuzzo. That would be a nightmare. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.com This article originally appeared on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/06/politics/russia-plague-death-trump
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Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate who survived Tennessees attempt to execute her , is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital, her attorneys said Tuesday. Pikes attorneys said her prognosis is still unclear and said she faces a long recovery. Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care, attorneys for Pike said in a statement. Despite the severe damage she endured to her arms, she is still handcuffed and shackled to the bed. Her recovery is medically unprecedented. Her attorneys said they are grateful for the first responders and the medical team at the hospital who treated Christa like a human and have provided exceptional care to her. The statement was the first indication that Pike has improved since an ambulance carried her away from a Nashville prison last Wednesday. Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital as they attempted to put her to death for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer. The lethal injection drug didnt kill her, but her lawyers said her arms were left burned and blistered. As recently as Sunday, her attorneys said Pike had remained unconscious and on a ventilator since the failed execution attempt. Dr. Joel Zivot, a professor of anesthesiology and surgery in Atlanta who consulted as an expert for Pikes legal team, said the development bodes well for a good recovery. But, he added, it could be weeks or months before anyone knows exactly what her recovery might look like, and whether her competency could be restored to a level that might enable the state to try again to execute her. Shes still in the ICU, he said. She has recovered to a certain degree that shes able to be off a ventilator and able to speak, but in no way would I announce her free of further serious risk. Theres still a lot of bad things that can happen here, even when everyone is doing their job well. A spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Correction said she could provide no information other than that Pike remained hospitalized Tuesday. Pikes attorneys are set to go to court Wednesday as they seek to learn more about what happened in the failed lethal injection. The attorneys are seeking a court order requiring the Tennessee Department of Correction to preserve evidence, including drug lot numbers, records and other information from the Sept. 30 attempted execution . Chancery Court Judge IAshea Myles scheduled a Wednesday morning status conference in the case. Pikes attorneys said in their Tuesday statement that they continue to ask Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to commute Pikes sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Christa is a survivor and will take recovery one day at a time, her attorneys said. ___ Associated Press reporter Gene Johnson contributed from Seattle. This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/christa-pike-conscious-speaking-hospital-205022410.html
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