Claims extracted
19
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
11%
2 of 19 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
2
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Christa Pike was “ruthless, without any remorse, almost giddy” when describing to cops how she committed the brutal murder which landed her on death row, according to the police chief who handled her case.
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who → describe → case
Pike, 50, made headlines around the world when she became the first ever inmate in the US to survive lethal injection on Sept. 30 in Tennessee.
asserted
she → make → Tennessee
She was sentenced to death for the sadistic killing of her 19-year-old Job Corps classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in Jan. 1995, in Knoxville.
asserted
She → sentence → Knoxville
“I heard somebody that was ruthless, without any remorse, almost giddy,” Keith recalled.
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Keith → hear → remorse
“You know, she was describing what took place, like, almost the sense that she was bragging about it.”
asserted
she → know → it
Pike lured Slemmer to her death in a fit of jealousy because she suspected the victim wanted to steal her 17-year-old boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp.
asserted
victim → lure → boyfriend
The pair took Slemmer to an isolated area of the University of Tennessee’s Knoxville campus, while Pike’s friend acted as lookout, and tortured her with a meat cleaver and box cutter and cut a pentagram into her chest.
asserted
friend → take → chest
At the end of the half-hour-long ordeal, Pike bashed Slemmer’s head in with a large chunk of asphalt and then kept a piece of her skull as a souvenir.
asserted
Pike → bash → souvenir
Former Knoxville top cop Keith said that the scene was so shocking that even veteran detectives working the case were stunned by what they found.
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they → say → what
Here’s the latest on the botched execution of Tennessee murderer Christa Pike:
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latest → ’ → Pike
“I was accustomed to seeing that kind of gore, if you will, but the brutality was different,” he told The Post.
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he → accustom → Post
“You know, the visual scene of it, it was so shocking, and I could tell, when I first walked up – there’s two seasoned guys there, they got 50 or 60 years of homicide investigations under their belt, and I could tell, looking at their eyes and just their expressions, that they were disgusted with what they saw.
uncertain
they → know → what
Pike was rushed to hospital after surviving two doses of pentobarbital administered with at least 10 syringes during her botched execution at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.
asserted
Pike → rush → Nashville
She remained unconscious in the days after the bungled attempt and her legal team believed on Oct. 5 that she was brain dead and would be taken off life support the following day.
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she → remain → support
Instead, she woke up and, 10 days after the aborted execution, was discharged from hospital and returned to the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center (DJRC), formerly known as the Tennessee Prison for Women.
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she → wake → Women
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Report → start → news
Her lawyers said last week that she is now speaking in full sentences, TMZ reported.
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TMZ → say → sentences
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee paused all remaining executions this year following the fiasco and ordered an independent review into what went wrong.
asserted
what → pause → review
The Volunteer State’s prison boss, Frank Strada, resigned after the bungled execution, noting it was “in the best interest of Tennesseans.”
Pike’s legal team has demanded that her sentence be commuted, saying she has “endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty.”
asserted
she → resign → penalty
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