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Texas carries out first US execution since Christa Pike's botched lethal injections

World | 2026-10-08 at 03:02 UTC | Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Lawyers for Jamaal Howard had asked a judge to pause the execution after Christa Pike's botched lethal injections.
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