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Pike aware,
attorney says
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Christa Pike is “angry and confused” after surviving an attempt to execute her in Tennessee. One of Pike’s attorneys, Randy Spivey, said Wednesday that she aware of what happened. Executioners tried twice to administer lethal doses of pentobarbital to Pike on Sept. 30.
Witnesses were able to hear her breathing heavily before she was removed from the death chamber. On Wednesday, a judge said she would issue an order to the state to preserve anything that was in the execution chamber and all communication records. Pike was sentenced to death for the beating and stabbing death of Colleen Slemmer in 1995.
Hurricane
may hit Gulf
(AP) -- Forecasters say Tropical Storm Isaias is gaining strength off eastern Mexico and should become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before it strikes the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week. The storm is on track to tie or break a 121-year-old record as the latest first Atlantic hurricane of the season.
Isaias was centered Wednesday morning about 255 miles northwest of Progreso, Mexico. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said the storm had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. Forecasters predict the storm will become a hurricane as it turns northward toward the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Landfall is expected late Friday or early Saturday between the Mississippi coast and the Florida Panhandle.
Israelis mourn
Oct. 7 attack
REIM, Israel (AP) -- Israelis gathered at intersections, bomb shelters and the site of a music festival that Hamas-led militants overran on Oct. 7, 2023. The attack killed 1,200 people, saw 251 taken hostage, sparked the war in Gaza, and led to a spiral of conflicts across the Middle East.
For Palestinians, Wednesday’s anniversary brought another day of living with the results of Israel’s retaliatory campaign in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of people. Most of the population of about 2 million people lives in vast, squalid tent camps, with large parts of the strip reduced to rubble. For the region, the day highlights a startling transformation over the past three years.
Health agency
wants details
GENEVA (AP) -- A top official with the World Health Organization says the U.N. health agency doesn’t know how a lab employee in Siberia died amid concerns about plague, and she called on Russia to provide more information.
Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO director of epidemic and pandemic Management, said the agency doesn’t know what the ‘causative agent’ was behind the woman’s Oct. 2 death, and “this is why we need more information.”