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Decoding America: What next after Christa Pike’s botched execution?
A warning for this episode - it covers details of a murder and an execution that some might find distressing.
In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad examine what happened when the state of Tennessee tried to execute prisoner Christa Pike. They also look at the controversy over taxpayer-funded ads promoting US president Donald Trump, midterm AI attack ads and the Elon Musk-Trump bromance that appears to be back on.
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Presented by Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy . Produced by Daniel Semo and Rachel Herron . The executive producer is Hannah Parkes · Wed, Oct 7, 2026, 6:37 PM
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A warning for this episode - it covers details of a murder and an execution that some might find distressing.
In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad examine what happened when the state of Tennessee tried to execute prisoner Christa Pike. They also look at the controversy over taxpayer-funded ads promoting US president Donald Trump, midterm AI attack ads and the Elon Musk-Trump bromance that appears to be back on.
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