{"id":79395,"date":"2026-10-01T06:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/tennessee-governor-halts-executions-after-second-botched-lethal-injection-attempt-this-year-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T06:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:55:02","slug":"tennessee-governor-halts-executions-after-second-botched-lethal-injection-attempt-this-year-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/tennessee-governor-halts-executions-after-second-botched-lethal-injection-attempt-this-year-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee governor halts executions after second botched lethal injection attempt this year \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Lee pauses state\u2019s remaining executions for the rest of the year after inmate Christa Pike survives two lethal injections<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/30\/tennessee-execution-halted-christa-pike\">Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Democratic senators have accused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> administration of worsening the country\u2019s childcare crisis, warning that rising costs and daycare closures are leaving families with fewer affordable options.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a letter seen by the Guardian and addressed to <a href=\"https:\/\/acf.gov\/about\/leadership\">Alex Adams<\/a>, assistant secretary of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), senators led by Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts argue that federal cuts and changes to childcare programs like Head Start are destabilising an already fragile system.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/oct\/01\/tennessee-governor-halts-executions-christa-pike-lethal-injection-donald-trump-hegseth-musk-us-politics-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Lee pauses state\u2019s remaining executions for the rest of the year after inmate Christa Pike survives two lethal injections Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections Democratic senators have accused Donald Trump\u2019s administration of worsening the country\u2019s childcare crisis, warning that rising costs and daycare closures are leaving &#8230; <a title=\"Tennessee governor halts executions after second botched lethal injection attempt this year \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/tennessee-governor-halts-executions-after-second-botched-lethal-injection-attempt-this-year-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tennessee governor halts executions after second botched lethal injection attempt this year \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}