On the record · Updated October 18, 2026
attorney with Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee
2 things Stephen Ferrell said, verbatim, from October 7, 2026 to October 9, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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“We’re not sure exactly of the long-term effects, but she’s clearly cognitively not quite back to normal and may have a long ways to go,”
on Christa Pike's lasting harm after Tennessee's failed lethal injection
TheGrio Pentagon confirms Fort Hood shooter’s firing squad execution to be livestreamed ›
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“We will never know exactly what physical pain and what mental pain she was going through, but that was her biggest fear as the survivor of sexual abuse − that she would be pinned down, prodded, poked, cut for a prolonged period of time”
on Christa Pike's botched execution inflicting the suffering she feared most
USA Today 'Against all odds': Christa Pike conscious and talking after botched execution ›
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