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Colleen Slemmer was nineteen. She grew up in Orange Park, Florida, went shrimping before dawn with her stepfather, gave up her lunch break to feed classmates who needed help, and loved computers enough that her grandfather told her to make a career of it. That's what brought her to a Job Corps center in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1995. She never came home.

On January 12, 1995, Christa Gail Pike, 18, and two other students lured Colleen to a secluded spot near the University of Tennessee's agricultural campus and killed her. Pike was sentenced to death in March 1996, becoming the youngest woman sentenced to death in the United States in the modern era. She has never claimed she didn't do it. What her jury never heard, her lawyers say, was a childhood of repeated rape and sexual abuse beginning when she was two, untreated bipolar disorder and PTSD, and a system of adults who were told and did nothing.

What followed was nearly three decades in de facto solitary confinement, a second conviction for attacking another inmate, a 226-page clemency petition, a governor's refusal, a stay an hour before the needle, a Supreme Court order reversing it, two full doses of pentobarbital, and a woman who did not die. Garret Fisher tells the whole story, start to finish: the victim, the crime, the childhood, the thirty years, the two hours in the chamber, the hospital bed where her lawyers were told she was brain dead, and the question Tennessee now has to answer is whether a state that has already tried once is allowed to try again.

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Actress Selma Blair, 54, pleaded not guilty Monday in Queens Criminal Court to two counts of second-degree assault under New York Penal Law 120.05(3), after an incident on Delta Flight 938 from Los Angeles to JFK on Sunday night. According to charging documents, a Port Authority officer securing Blair to a stretcher said she freed a leg and kicked her repeatedly, and a nurse at Jamaica Hospital said Blair kicked her in the chest — the state charges concern what happened after the flight, not during it. Law enforcement sources told CBS and CNN that Blair tried to open a cabin door and that two flight attendants were injured; the FBI has issued a notice charging her in connection with the flight itself, which falls under federal jurisdiction. Her attorney Shawn Barnes told the court the conduct was not intentional, citing missed doses of a medication controlling severe neurological symptoms and a head injury during the flight. Bail was set at $20,000 cash or $60,000 bond; her next court date is Jan. 19, 2027. Also: Tyreek Hill testified in the Miami civil trial that he is ashamed of how he spoke to his estranged wife while denying he ever physically hurt her. And a jury of 13 was sworn in for Russell Brand's trial in London; he denies all seven charges. Garret Fisher reports.

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Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle has set the execution of Nidal Hasan, 56, for Dec. 3 at 1 p.m. at Fort Hood, Texas — the same post where he killed 13 people and wounded 32 in November 2009, and close to the hour the shooting began. It would be the first U.S. military execution since 1961 and the Army's first firing squad since 1945. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said this week the public will be able to watch, and the Pentagon confirmed Thursday it will be livestreamed, without saying where it would be hosted or what viewers would see. The plan has drawn bipartisan objection, and Army Regulation 190-55, which governs military executions and bars anyone under 18 from attending, does not address livestreaming. Presidential approval does not guarantee an execution: Ronald Gray's was approved in 2008 and halted in federal court. Also: Russell Brand's trial opened at Southwark Crown Court with jury selection; he denies all seven charges. And Christa Gail Pike has been discharged from hospital and returned to the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, ten days after Tennessee's failed execution. Garret Fisher reports.

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Bryan Kohberger, 31, who pleaded guilty in July 2025 to murdering University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin and is serving four consecutive life sentences, now says he was convinced to falsely confess and that his court-appointed lawyers failed him. On Oct. 15 at 1:30 p.m., Judge Steven Hippler will hear a motion asking him to disqualify himself from the post-conviction case, filed Aug. 27 by Kohberger's new court-appointed attorney Greg Rauch, which argues Hippler's sentencing remarks — calling Kohberger a faceless coward and saying he could find nothing good or intrinsically human about him — show bias. Prosecutors answered Oct. 7 that harsh sentencing remarks are not bias and that the motion must show the judge is biased; they have separately asked the court to dismiss the petition without an evidentiary hearing. An amended petition is due Nov. 13, four years to the day after the killings. Also: Russell Brand's trial opens at Southwark Crown Court; he denies all seven charges. And a Clarksville, Tennessee, jury convicted former paramedic Matthew Konen of first-degree murder in the death of David Rodgers and of criminally negligent homicide in the death of his wife, Rachel Konen. Garret Fisher reports.

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Christa Gail Pike's attorneys believed she was brain dead Monday night and expected her to be taken off life support Tuesday. Instead, attorney Randy Spivey said, she woke up and began talking — "to the shock of everyone," including her medical team. She has pneumonia, a blood clot, and no function in either arm, remains handcuffed and shackled, and her lawyers say there could be permanent damage. On Wednesday, Davidson County Chancellor I'Ashea Myles ordered Tennessee to preserve all evidence from the Sept. 30 failed execution — IV lines, needles, drugs, records, 911 calls, log books, communications and anything concerning deviations from protocol — declining to rely on an existing federal order. Asked whether the execution would be rescheduled, the state's attorney said he was not in a position to answer. Also: Lakeeta "Keeta" Vaccaro testified for more than three hours in her civil assault and battery trial against Tyreek Hill in Miami; he denies all of it and has not been charged. And a Tennessee jury is weighing whether former paramedic Matthew Konen killed his wife Rachel Konen and her father David Rodgers. Garret Fisher reports.

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed Attorney General Letitia James special prosecutor on Oct. 1 in the Cornell University case, saying she had lost faith in Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten's handling of it. A former student identified in court papers as Jane Doe has filed a civil suit against seven then-members of Chi Phi, the university, the national fraternity and others, alleging she was pressured into taking ketamine and assaulted over several hours in October 2024. All seven deny wrongdoing; no one has been charged with a crime. Van Houten, who declined to bring charges in 2024 based on a six-page sworn statement, has said he never received the full transcript of her interview with campus police, and has reopened the case; he says he supports the special prosecutor's appointment. Also: Christa Gail Pike is conscious and speaking a week after Tennessee's failed execution, her attorneys say, though she remains in critical care and shackled to her bed. And in Pender County, North Carolina, David Prevatte, 27, is on trial in the 2017 death of five-year-old Paitin Fields; he has pleaded not guilty. Garret Fisher reports.

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The Pentagon announced Monday night that President Trump approved Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's recommendation to execute former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, 56, by Army firing squad for the 2009 Fort Hood shooting that killed 13 people and wounded 32. The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place; it would be the first U.S. military execution since 1961 and the Army's first firing squad since 1945. No date has been set, and presidential approval does not guarantee an execution — Ronald Gray's was approved in 2008 and halted in federal court. In Ohio, Judge Jeannine Pratt sentenced Caleb Flynn, 40, to life without parole plus additional time for the February murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn, 37, after he told the court he did not kill her; the judge found no remorse and described deceit, manipulation and cruelty. And in Tennessee, Correction Commissioner Frank Strada has resigned and former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton will lead an independent review as Christa Pike remains critically ill and unconscious a week after the state failed to execute her. Garret Fisher reports.

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The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles granted parole Thursday to Amber Guyger, 38, the former Dallas officer convicted of murdering Botham Jean, 26, in his own apartment in September 2018 — seven years to the day after her conviction, and seven years into a ten-year sentence. The board cited the absence of a documented pattern of violent arrests or convictions, a satisfactory institutional adjustment, and completed programming; no release date has been set, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will determine timing. Jean's family has opposed her release since her first parole review in 2024. In Florida, the First District Court of Appeal overturned the third-degree felony murder and child-unattended convictions of Rhonda Jewell in the 2023 hot-car death of 10-month-old Ariya Paige, holding that both charges required proof she knowingly left the child; the case returns for a new trial on the lesser count. And in Kentucky, former Letcher County sheriff Shawn "Mickey" Stines, charged in the 2024 shooting of Judge Kevin Mullins, is seeking to limit a second prosecution mental health examination. Garret Fisher reports.

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Christa Gail Pike is unconscious, intubated and breathing through a ventilator at a Nashville-area hospital five days after Tennessee failed to execute her, her attorneys said in a Friday emergency motion. Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen of Federal Defender Services of East Tennessee wrote that the execution team used at least seven needles, that one bent, that Pike herself suggested an access site, and that no one on the team appeared to realize the IV lines were misplaced and the veins had blown before a second set of syringes was administered. The motion asks a judge to order the Department of Correction to preserve all evidence from that night. The state says it followed its approved protocol; no court has made any finding, and Gov. Bill Lee's third-party review is ongoing. Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. Also: a Polk County jury is weighing whether to recommend death for Tony "TJ" Wiggins in the Frostproof killings of Damion Tillman, Brandon Rollins and Keven Springfield — Florida requires only eight of twelve votes. And jury selection begins in Boston in the federal trial of former Stoughton detective Matthew Farwell in the death of Sandra Birchmore, 23. Garret Fisher reports.

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Christa Gail Pike remains hospitalized two days after Tennessee failed to execute her, and her attorneys say they still have not been told her condition. Dr. Mark Walton Fowler, the contract physician who publicly confirmed he would oversee her execution, was also the physician involved in Tennessee's halted execution of Tony Carruthers in May; Carruthers's sister has filed a Department of Health complaint alleging malpractice, and no disciplinary action has been announced. The state's written protocol directs a second set of syringes if the first fails but says nothing about what happens if the second fails too. Robin Maher of the Death Penalty Information Center calls it unlike any botched execution in the modern era. Gov. Bill Lee has ordered a third-party review. In Florida, a Polk County jury convicted Tony Lee "TJ" Wiggins Jr. of first-degree murder in the 2020 killings of Damion Tillman, Brandon Rollins and Keven Springfield, and is now hearing whether to recommend death. And Alex Murdaugh's attorneys have moved to compel records, saying the state has held a witness statement since 2023 that a police chief handled the never-recovered murder weapons. Garret Fisher reports.

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