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A Nashville court has set 23 October as Christa Pike's next date. The Department of Correction says it has no information to share on her care or on a new execution date. Her lawyers say she is back in prison after leaving the hospital.
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Clancy's lawyer Kevin Reddington asked Judge William Sullivan last week to let him call witnesses at the 2 November hearing on the holdout juror (the one juror who wanted to convict) and on whether a retrial would violate double jeopardy (the ban on being tried twice for the same crime), or to postpone it until witnesses can testify, the Boston Globe and Boston 25 News reported on 9 October.
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A federal appeals panel looked sceptical on Sunday of the Justice Department's demand that California stop counting ballots from 20,000 people it calls likely noncitizens. The government may well lose. The risk is in what the effort does to officials, voters and public trust before it does.
A Massachusetts judge ended Clancy's murder trial after a jury reportedly split 11 to 1, then refused to acquit her and refused to look into the holdout juror. On November 2 he hears her claim that a retrial is barred. The law makes that unlikely. The harder question is what a second jury would decide about her mental state.
Tennessee says it followed every step when it gave Christa Pike two doses of pentobarbital and she survived. The protocol it followed has no answer for a failed IV line, allows the commissioner to deviate, and was used a second time by the same physician after the Carruthers attempt in May. A review led by Ed Stanton has no reported deadline.
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