Tennessee Governor Bill Lee paused all state executions for the rest of 2026 on October 1, after death row inmate Krista Pike survived two full doses of pentobarbital on September 30 and was hospitalized. Lee ordered an independent review of the state's protocols. Pike has regained consciousness and is speaking, her lawyers say, while handcuffed in a Nashville hospital. Reporting has since established that Tennessee spent more than half a million dollars tracking down lethal injection drugs of unknown origin, and that Shadola Peterson pleaded guilty as an accessory after the fact and received six years probation. The discussion now centers on Pike's unresolved death sentence and whether the state can ever attempt to execute her again, with Marsha Blackburn…