A Tennessee death row inmate set to be the first woman to be executed by the state in more than 200 years is still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyers have said.
Christa Pike, 50, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, was due to be executed after the US Supreme Court overturned an earlier reprieve that had been ordered just an hour before her sentence was initially scheduled to be carried out in Nashville on Wednesday.
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