Tony Gonzalez
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189 appearances
27 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Aug
Tony Gonzalez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The legal team for Krista Pike argues lethal injection would be torturous because she has a blood clotting disorder.
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They're especially worried about the process after a botched execution of another inmate in May.
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And they say Pike's lifetime of sexual trauma could be triggered when she's moved to an all-male prison and controlled by male guards ahead of her execution.
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They've even suggested hanging as an alternative.
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But a specially appointed judge disagrees, and his report is now in the hands of
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The Tennessee Supreme Court, which has the final say.
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Pike was eighteen when she tortured and murdered a teen coworker in Knoxville.
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She would be the first woman executed in Tennessee since eighteen nineteen.
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For NPR News, I'm Tony Gonzalez in Nashville.
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Districts.
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Tennessee is one of a handful of states to consider Ten Commandments legislation, and lawmakers ultimately decided to allow but not mandate their display.
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Now an investigation is underway from the American Civil Liberties Union and two groups that advocate for the separation of church and state.
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They've filed records requests with school boards.
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In one district in a county neighboring Nashville, the board voted to fund printed displays.
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There were some misgivings, but the vote was unanimous.
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with members describing the commandments as more about history and legal tradition than about religion.
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For NPR News, I'm Tony Gonzalez in Nashville.
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State law typically keeps execution participants secret, but a judge says the state essentially waived that protection when it named the physician who struggled in May.
He couldn't find a vein for more than an hour before the governor halted the process.
Death row defense attorneys had questioned the doctor's credentials in advance and described him repeatedly wounding their client.
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