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10/01/2026

Ex*****on botched in Tennessee:

FROM FOX NEWS:

“I’ve witnessed, I believe, 5 ex*****ons in Tennessee. Nothing about today was normal, typical at all.”

Shocking new details emerge from the failed attempt to execute Christa Pike, the 50-year-old inmate who has spent nearly 30 years on Tennessee’s death row.

At a news conference following the attempted ex*****on, media witnesses are now revealing more about what Pike was saying and what they heard as the process unfolded.

“The vein in my arm feels like it’s about to burst open,” Pike told her spiritual adviser during the process.

Officials administered two syringes of pentobarbital, but Pike still had a heartbeat and was snoring after receiving the drugs, according to an emergency court filing from her attorneys. One witness described the sound as if Pike was “almost choking.”

“She was clearly still alive. She was clearly still breathing.”

The curtains inside the ex*****on chamber went down twice as the process unfolded, and Tennessee officials ultimately were unable to complete the ex*****on.

Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. She was 18 at the time of the killing.

09/30/2026

Former Lufkin officer pleads to 5 years for 100 counts related to Flock camera misuse

09/23/2026

⚖️ A significant win for Texas inmate advocates.

On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled the state must air-condition all its prisons by the end of 2029. The ruling says current conditions in prisons without air conditioning violate the Eighth Amendment.

09/21/2026

Funding for the Flock camera system for the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, including consideration of the sheriff’s request for $45,000 in county funding and determination of a funding source, …

09/21/2026

https://www.ktre.com/2026/09/17/woman-sues-city-detective-10-million-over-wrongful-arrest-tied-facial-recognition-error/?fbclid=IwY2xjawUeTIJwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5yTEiTS17vfDtbGlhbwYznLXvudjtKxDPASjwQ9fIJC_nq1d1KOZooTz5jaQ_aem_wKQdpB6vHFsWlKTpspva3w

A woman is suing for millions of dollars, alleging that a flawed facial recognition match led to her facing bank fraud charges that were later dropped.

09/17/2026

Today is the anniversary of the day the 39 revolutionary delegates signed the U.S. Constitution at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Our Founding Fathers, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and the others risked political ruin, public backlash, and the failure of the new nation they were trying to preserve. They had already risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor by signing the Declaration of Independence from the British Crown (1776).

Some elected officials give lip service to the Constitution. My job is to make sure they enforce it and the Texas Constitution.