{"id":79930,"date":"2026-10-13T12:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/florida-carries-out-execution-amid-scrutiny-over-botched-tennessee-attempt\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:55:33","slug":"florida-carries-out-execution-amid-scrutiny-over-botched-tennessee-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/florida-carries-out-execution-amid-scrutiny-over-botched-tennessee-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida carries out execution amid scrutiny over botched Tennessee attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Robertson was the state\u2019s 17th execution this year, amid scrutiny over Tennessee\u2019s failed lethal injection of Christa Pike<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/09\/live-stream-execution-fort-hood-shooter\">US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Florida put to death a convicted murderer in the state\u2019s first execution since September\u2019s botched attempt involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/05\/christa-pike-lawyers-difficult-cruel-execution\">Christa Pike<\/a> in Tennessee, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said James Robertson, 63, was pronounced dead after he received a three-shot series of lethal injections at a Florida state prison in Raiford.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/13\/florida-prision-execution-james-robertson\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Robertson was the state\u2019s 17th execution this year, amid scrutiny over Tennessee\u2019s failed lethal injection of Christa Pike US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation Florida put to death a convicted murderer in the state\u2019s first execution since September\u2019s botched attempt involving Christa Pike in Tennessee, on Tuesday. Officials said James Robertson, 63, &#8230; <a title=\"Florida carries out execution amid scrutiny over botched Tennessee attempt\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/florida-carries-out-execution-amid-scrutiny-over-botched-tennessee-attempt\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida carries out execution amid scrutiny over botched Tennessee attempt\">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-79930","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\/79930","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=79930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}