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Steven Hale

@iamstevenhale.bsky.social
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Nashville Banner criminal justice / public safety reporter. “Death Row Welcomes You” author. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/67…

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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NEW: Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada has resigned as head of the state’s prison system after the state’s second botched execution of this year. ✍️ @iamstevenhale.bsky.social
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Tennessee prison chief resigns after Christa Pike's botched execution
TDOC commissioner Frank Strada resigned Saturday after the failed execution of Christa Pike — the second under his leadership this year.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gov. Bill Lee just announced that Frank Strada, the commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Correction had resigned after Wednesday night’s failed execution of Christa Pike.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In light of we've learned about the execution team's struggle to establish IV access before Christa Pike's failed lethal injection, here's a story I wrote in June after Carruthers. The new protocol TN adopted in 2025 reduced training in IV placement. nashvillebanner.com/2026/06/30/t...
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Lethal injection protocol likely led to botched execution - Nashville Banner
Tennessee's current lethal injection protocol includes reduced training on IV placement, an issue that caused the state to halt Tony Carruthers' execution.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
More coming but as @emilyscochrane.bsky.social reported for the NYT, Christa Pike's attorneys said in a court filing this morning that she was unconscious and on a ventilator as of Thursday night, 24 hours after she survived her scheduled execution in Nashville.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 02/10/2026
Reporter Steven Hale witnessed Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee. He describes to us what he saw.
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On our latest podcast episode, Banner managing editor @andreatudhope.bsky.social talks to reporters @iamstevenhale.bsky.social and @mikeiereiland.bsky.social about covering the failed execution of Christa Pike from inside and outside the prison.
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LISTEN: A Nightmare Unfolds in Tennessee’s Death Chamber - Nashville Banner
Banner reporters discuss events surrounding the attempted execution of Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike’s attorneys said she was alive and in critical condition at a Nashville hospital Thursday afternoon, less than 24 hours after she survived the state of Tennessee’s attempt to execute her. nashvillebanner.com/2026/10/01/c...
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Christa Pike survives botched Tennessee execution attempt - Nashville Banner
Christa Pike survives a botched execution attempt in Tennessee; lawyers report she is in critical condition and are unsure of her prognosis.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At an ongoing press conference, Christa Pike’s attorneys say she is alive right now although they don’t know her prognosis. @nashvillebanner.bsky.social
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike, who was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, is still alive after the state tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday. TDOC officials refused to comment after the state’s second failed execution this year. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...
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Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection attempt - Nashville Banner
Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I got back home a bit ago from Tennessee's execution of Christa Pike. We sat in the witness room for nearly 2 and a half hours as she received two rounds of pentobarbital. She was taken away in an ambulance shortly after that and I can't say for sure if she is dead or alive at this moment.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Christa Pike’s attorneys say the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a stay of execution. News spreading now outside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, where the execution is scheduled for 10am.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UPDATE: Florida killed Curtis Beasley this evening. Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty noted this is the DeSantis administration's "44th execution." Beasley is "the 13th veteran, the 14th senior citizen, and the 27th person ... to die despite a non-unanimous jury vote for death."
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Christa Pike's appeal, clearing the way for her to be executed in Tennessee tomorrow morning. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meanwhile in Music City
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I spoke to Barbara Miller from the ABC in Australia about Christa Pike, the woman Tennessee plans to execute tomorrow. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Tennessee prepares to execute female death row inmate - ABC listen
In the US state of Tennessee, death row inmate Christa Pike is set to be executed tomorrow, after the governor denied her appeal for clemency.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee just announced that he will not grant clemency to Christa Pike, allowing her to be executed on Wednesday morning.
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Without 11th-hour intervention from the courts or Gov. Bill Lee, Tennessee will execute Christa Pike this week. She would be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years and just the 19th in the U.S. since 1976. ✍️ @iamstevenhale.bsky.social
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Plans for Tennessee to execute Christa Pike remain in place - Nashville Banner
Christa Pike faces execution in Tennessee for her 1995 murder conviction. The state has not executed a woman in more than 200 years.
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Marsha Blackburn’s campaign is using phishing techniques to lure political donations, warning about “permanent” changes to “voter profiles.” ✍️ @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social
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Pro-Blackburn PAC sends donor emails that resemble phishing - Nashville Banner
A PAC that supports Marsha Blackburn's campaign has send several emails that use alarmist language and include indirect attempts to solicit donations .
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Tennessee Supreme Court denied a stay this evening for Christa Pike, the woman Tennessee is set to execute on Sept. 30. I wrote about her childhood, the murder that sent her to death row, and who she and her victim’s family are today: nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/14/c...
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As Christa Pike execution's draws near, lawyers point to her past - Nashville Banner
Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike on Sept. 30 for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, which would be the state's first female execution in over 200 years.
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
After allegedly stabbing a correctional officer to death in East Tennessee earlier this year, Reginald Steed died Tuesday in a Nashville prison. Now the TBI is investigating. ✍️ @iamstevenhale.bsky.social
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Murder suspect Reginald Steed found dead in prison - Nashville Banner
Reginald Steed, accused of killing a Tennessee correctional officer, died early Tuesday at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. The TBI is investigating.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also that I-40 gets lonelier with every mile
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Only concerns a writer should have about any books list are Am I on it? (No.) Are my friends or colleagues on it? If so is it the friends and colleagues I want to succeed or the ones I do not?
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Organizers from the group looking to end auto racing at Nashville’s fairgrounds turned in nearly 75,000 petition signatures Friday, likely ending one contentious campaign and beginning another. ✍️ @iamstevenhale.bsky.social
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Petition to end racing at Fairgrounds Speedway submitted - Nashville Banner
Organizers presented a petition with 75,000 signatures to the Metro Clerk on Friday, likely forcing a 2027 referendum to end auto racing at the fairgrounds.
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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Stop interviewing the fake lady
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Over the course of three days in August, Christa Pike watched as lawyers and expert witnesses in a Knoxville courtroom meticulously analyzed the abuse she suffered as a child and the different methods the state could use to kill her. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/14/c...
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As Christa Pike execution's draws near, lawyers point to her past - Nashville Banner
Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike on Sept. 30 for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, which would be the state's first female execution in over 200 years.
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
On our latest podcast episode, @iamstevenhale.bsky.social talks to @stelliott.bsky.social and @ejturner02.bsky.social about the thousands of refugees who have come to Nashville in recent years and the resources they’re losing under the Trump administration.
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Immigration data shows Nashville a destination as services dwindle
Banner reporters discuss how they wrote a story on immigration in Nashville using data obtained by the AP data, as local services are cut
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 18/09/2026
Via Ralph Chapoco: The state of Alabama Thursday executed Jeffery Lee, 49, by lethal injection, two months after a federal court rebuffed efforts to execute him by nitrogen gas and following a campaign for clemency by attorneys who wanted a jury's initial sentence of life without parole upheld.
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Alabama executes Jeffery Lee by lethal injection | Alabama Reflector
Lee's attorneys argued that the state should have upheld a jury's initial sentence of life without parole, which a judge overrode.
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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Predictably our headline lead to the fastest open rate in Court Watch history. Never change, internet. www.courtwatch.news/p/191-privat...
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#191: Private Parts Become Public Record
No other way to describe that and still get through the email filters. Plus: District Attorney Disqualified, Fake Epstein Victim, and a College Football Stadium Scam.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ok that's 3 minutes, keep moving, got a lot of sad teens here.
Just 3 minutes with a mini horse or donkey improves teens' moods, study says
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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
wow wow wow — the execution of Stacey Humphreys has been STAYED in Georgia because a judge ruled that he was due a hearing under the Survivor Justice Act, which allows the abuse a person has suffered to be considered in their sentencing. Mr Humphrey was horribly abused as a kid.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We need to “pace” the amount of times I have to hear the words “Hugging Face” every day.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026
Happy Baby Safety Month.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New @theintercept.com: I wrote about the man Georgia plans to execute tomorrow night, and the juror misconduct that sent him to death row.
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A Lone Juror Hijacked Deliberations. This Time, a Man Faces Execution.
While many fixated on the man who refused to acquit Lindsay Clancy, Georgia is set to kill Stacey Humphreys despite “extreme juror misconduct.”
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Me at 19 in the Jordan-Hare bleachers after talking a ton of shit and then being confronted by a dozen drunk dudes in khakis and blazers:
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: ICE is arresting and detaining a record number of pregnant women and teens. At the same time, it has lost count of how many had miscarriages, according to a Guardian review of internal ICE documents. w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Steve Cavendish @scavendish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why won't independent candidate for governor David Hatley answer the Banner's policy questions? "Those questions were hard." nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/15/d...
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 11/09/2026
Via Anna Barrett: More than 100 Auburn University faculty and community members gathered Friday morning to protest the Board of Trustees' dissolution of the university's faculty senate and warned of broader consequences.
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Auburn University faculty protest Board of Trustees' dissolution of university senate | Alabama Reflector
On Friday, more than 100 faculty and community members gathered outside the trustees’ meeting to protest the decision and warn that it could have broader consequences. 
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
She’s an Emmy winner!!!
@katiedippold tweet:

TBT to Halloween when I dressed as the babadook but my friend's house had more of a grown ups drinking wine vibe

(Image of Katie in full babadook costume and makeup surrounded by people in casual clothes)
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A horrifying story from @ejdickson.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In 2024, Tennessee enacted a law making the rape of a child punishable by death. Now the state is preparing to execute a woman who was herself raped by multiple men before she turned 18. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/14/c...
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As Christa Pike execution's draws near, lawyers point to her past - Nashville Banner
Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike on Sept. 30 for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, which would be the state's first female execution in over 200 years.
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As a child, Christa Pike was raped and abused. As an 18-year-old she committed the gruesome murder of Colleen Slemmer. Now she is 50 and Tennessee is preparing to execute her. ✍️ @iamstevenhale.bsky.social
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As Christa Pike execution's draws near, lawyers point to her past - Nashville Banner
Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike on Sept. 30 for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, which would be the state's first female execution in over 200 years.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just because I live in Nashville all the social media algorithms think I can't get enough of the meltdowns over the Titans loss yesterday but I actually can get enough of it.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. NYT asked a bunch of ten year olds what life will be like in 2050.” (via @shashj.bsky.social)
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