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Lee ‘Highly Disappointed’ in Botched Execution, Blackburn Calls for Electric Chair (opens the original)
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Questions continue to swirl around Tennesseeâs multiple failed attempts to execute Christa Pike by lethal injection on Wednesday â the second botched execution by the state this year. Fifty-year-old Pike â the only woman on death row in Tennessee, who was sentenced to death in 1995 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer â was transported to a hospital Wednesday evening after surviving two doses of pentobarbital, the stateâs lethal injection drug. She remains hospitalized as of Thursday afte
Schools, Facilities, Roads at Center of Mayor’s $544.7 Million Spending Plan (opens the original)
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Mayor Freddie OâConnell proposed his annual capital spending plan â which allocates hundreds of millions of dollars each year to city projects â and is putting a focus on schools, public facilities and transportation infrastructure. OâConnell filed the $544.7 million proposal with the Metro Council last week, following last yearâs $532 million capital spending plan. The largest chunk of the funds would allocate $202 million to public facilities. This includes $75 million to relocate th
The Nonprofit Acting as a Watchdog for Wages (opens the original)
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As Nashville becomes increasingly expensive, one local nonprofit is acting as a watchdog for wages in the city. Stand Up Nashville recently incorporated volunteer organization Nashville Living Wageâs certification program into its Good Jobs Nashville initiative. Through the program, small businesses and nonprofits in Nashville can apply to receive certification proving they pay whatâs considered a living wage for the city. To obtain the living wage certification, businesses must be in line
Q&A: Talking with local policy expert on potential AI crash (opens the original)
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Dario Amodei â CEO of AI tech giant Anthropic â penned an essay earlier this month calling for slowdown of AI development, arguing that continuing at the current pace without clear regulations could pose serious dangers to humanity. âGiven the accelerating rate of AI capability development, itâs my worry that in 6â12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet (potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage), and that
Advocates Plead for Christa Pike Death Sentence Commutation (opens the original)
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Just days before Christa Pikeâs scheduled Sept. 30 execution via lethal injection, youth advocates and trauma experts are urging Gov. Bill Lee to commute her death sentence to life without possibility of parole. In 1996, Pike was sentenced to death for her part in the 1995 Knoxville-area murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. Pike was 18 at the time of the murder. Now 50 years old, she is the only woman on Tennesseeâs death row. If her execution is carried out, she will be the first woman e
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