Pike is scheduled to be the first woman executed in Tennessee since 1819.

In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book “Secrets of the Killing State,” which exposes the troubling realities behind lethal injection as a method of execution. Lain, a ...

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This story was originally published by the Nashville Banner. Sign up for their newsletter at nashvillebanner.com/newsletters. Tennessee prison officials are refusing ...