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Lindsay Clancy returned to a Massachusetts courtroom today for the first time since her trial ended with a hung jury earlier this month.
And more than a thousand miles away, another accused killer is speaking about her connection with the Clancy case.
As you may have heard, Christa Pike is preparing to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.
And as the convicted murderer awaits her fate, she says she feels an unexpected connection to Clancy.
Pike, now 50, was 18 when she was convicted of participating in the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville, Tennessee.
She was sentenced to death and is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection this week.
In a recent interview conducted through her attorneys, Pike discussed Clancy’s case and said she sees similarities between the two women, particularly when it comes to mental illness and the way women’s struggles are understood by the legal system.
“I feel a kinship with Lindsay,” Pike said, according to The Times of London (via The New York Post).
“We are both females who got into trouble because of uniquely female issues,” she added.
Clancy, of course, has spent the past several years at the center of her own highly publicized legal battle. She has admitted to killing her three children in 2023, while her defense argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and therefore should not be held criminally responsible.
That trial ended in a mistrial earlier this month after jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict. Clancy remains hospitalized while prosecutors and her defense team navigate what comes next.
Pike said she was pleased with the outcome.
“I am pleased she received a mistrial and is getting the help she needs,” Pike said.
She also argued that her own case might have been viewed differently if it had gone to trial under today’s understanding of mental health and brain development.
“I think so, because science about brain development has evolved,” Pike said when asked whether jurors might have shown her more compassion today.
Pike claims that her mental-health history was not adequately presented during her 1996 trial. Her attorneys now point to a history of severe trauma, PTSD, and bipolar disorder as factors that should have been considered when she was sentenced to death.
“There are so many women who don’t get the help they need: me and others,” Pike said.
She also believes race played a role in the severity of her punishment, noting that her boyfriend at the time was Black.
“While racism has not gone away, it has diminished some,” Pike said. “I think I was more harshly judged because of my relationship with Tadaryl.”
Pike’s scheduled execution has prompted a last-minute legal effort from her attorneys, who have asked the Supreme Court to intervene. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has declined to grant clemency.
Meanwhile, Pike says she is not afraid of what comes next.
“I am not afraid to die,” she recently said.
For now, both Pike and Clancy remain at the center of very different legal battles, with mental health, criminal responsibility, and the treatment of women playing major roles in each case.
Christa Pike: Death Row Inmate Claims ‘Kinship’ With Lindsay Clancy was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Will Reeve, son of late Superman actor Christopher Reeve, wants people to know that he is “okay.”
In the same breath, he detailed his testicular cancer journey.
Like others who have disclosed cancer and other ailments on Good Morning America, he seems optimistic about the future.
This summer, however, he spent fighting for his life.
Will Reeve was diagnosed with testicular cancer
On Tuesday, September 29, Will Reeve disclosed his testicular cancer diagnosis on Good Morning America.
The 34-year-old was quick to reassure viewers “right off the top” that he’s okay now.
But it sounds like he spent the summer aggressively battling the disease to reach this point.
“The diagnosis was a shock and the treatments were a slog,” he acknowledged.
“Today, though, I am relieved to announce that we arrived at our destination and this cancer is in the rearview mirror,” Reeve affirmed. “But what a journey.”
In January of this year, he married Amanda Dubin.
Just four months into their happily ever after, he explained, he discovered “a hard, tender lump in my left testicle.”
He very wisely, and “at Amanda’s urging,” went in for an ultrasound.
“The imagines confirmed the unimaginable,” Reeve admitted.
Doctors discovered that he “had a mass that had to come out.”
Unfortunately, treatment had to be more aggressive than he’d hoped
In May, Will Reeve underwent an orchiectomy — the removal of the testicle in question.
What he believed to have been a “momentary frightening detour” turned out to be something bigger and scarier.
Reeve received a diagnosis of embryonal carcinoma, an aggressive form of testicular cancer that required further medical care.
His next surgery involved the removal of dozens of lymph nodes from his abdomen. Aggressive cancers can often spread using these ducts.
Reeve made the “necessary choice,” in his words, to undergo chemotherapy to further cut down his chances of cancer returning. He had numerous side-effects, but avoided losing his hair thanks to a cold-capping method.
Reeve underwent his surgeries as Memorial Sloan Kettering.
He was in the same building as his mother was when she died in 2006 after a battle with lung cancer. Dana Reeve was only 44 years old.
That was only two years after Christopher Reeve’s death at 52.
Reeve shared that he banked sperm prior to these treatments.
His hope is that he and his wife will always have the option to one day start a family via in vitro fertilization.
We are relieved to know that he is well. We hope that things stay that way.
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A slate of Democrats are running for Congress leaning on their Christian bona fides. Republicans are trying to portray them as wolves in sheep’s clothing.
In Texas, Republicans are running ads blasting seminarian James Talarico for saying he’s “a Christian who hates Christianity.” In Iowa, they are going after a pair of clergy in key House races as “PINOS” — “pastors in name only,” because they “don’t profess the true gospel of Jesus Christ.” In Kansas, Republicans pan megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton as “too woke and too weak.”
“His sermons are essentially a carbon copy of the Democrat National Committee platform,” said Brent Robertson, chief of staff to Hamilton’s opponent, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), pointing to a past sermon in which Hamilton urged followers to reduce their carbon footprint.
The closing arguments on these Democrats — as evidenced by the most recent ads — shows a concerted effort to turn their preaching against them to paint them as fake, corrupt or even blasphemous.
In Texas, MAGA Inc. is on air painting Talarico as a “liberal weirdo,” clipping Talarico’s controversial statements, like “Jesus Christ Himself was a radical feminist” and “God is non-binary.”
The Trump-aligned No Going Back PAC is on air in Iowa’s 2nd District hitting Presbyterian minister and Democrat Lindsay James as inauthentic: “When the cameras are on, Lindsay James goes into a character, a caring pastor who says what you want to hear, but when there’s no spotlight, Lindsay James shows just how radical she can be.”
And in Kansas, GOP Sen. Roger Marshall’s campaign is on air slamming Hamilton as a “slimy,” “millionaire megachurch CEO,” saying he “used faith to fatten his wallet” and “asked churchgoers to pony up for God, then use church resources for his own campaign.”
“The swamp’s got enough money changers,” the ad says.
The attacks are coming precisely because these candidates have proven to be formidable candidates in purple to red areas, using their faith backgrounds to bolster themselves against GOP accusations that they’re out of their state’s mainstream. Talarico poses Democrats’ best chance to flip a Texas Senate seat in nearly four decades. Hamilton has turned deep-red Kansas into a battleground. And James and Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran minister, are running tough in a pair of Iowa districts Trump won in 2024.
Voters “understand and appreciate authenticity, and they know that faith without works is dead,” said Chaz Molder, the Democratic nominee in Tennessee’s deep-red 2nd District who leads a Sunday School class with his wife. “And just posting scripture on Sunday morning to point out that they went to church is not enough.”
But with Democrats’ clerical credibility comes a practical challenge: years and years of on-camera sermons, a treasure trove for oppo researchers. It’s become a challenge in Hamilton’s race, where Vice President JD Vance joined the pile-on earlier this month: During a visit to Iowa, he took a shot at Hamilton as having “kind of a ‘gee whiz, I’m a nice pastor’ vibe,” but said he “tells his congregation not about the gospel of Jesus Christ, but that they need to repent for their white privilege while eating beef.”
Democrats have largely brushed off the attacks. Talarico has said he’s “missed the mark” on some of his “cringey” past comments but has doubled down on his sermonizing: “When I take on the politicians who are serving themselves and not the people, I’m doing it on biblical grounds,” he said in a sermon last weekend. A James spokesperson criticized Republicans for “desperately attacking Lindsay’s deeply held faith commitments. If it wasn’t so insulting to other Iowa Christians, it would be laughable.” Hamilton has seen clergy run to his side: 120 fellow Methodist ministers across Kansas wrote an open letter to Marshall telling him to stop attacking Hamilton’s pastoral ministry, saying the attacks “tear at the fabric that is the body of Christ.”
“We’re not the first Christians to be attacked for our faith, and we won’t let smears and lies from a couple of Washington politicians stop us from living out our values in the world,” Hamilton said in a video after Vance’s speech.
In many ways, this election marks something of a faith resurgence for the Democratic Party. While only half of Democrat- and Democrat-leaning U.S. adults identify as Christian (a 24-percentage-point decline since 2007), Democrats this cycle are running clergy, Sunday School teachers, chaplains and other devout Christians across the map.
“As a person of faith, I think that it’s time for the Democratic Party to reassert that Democrats are a big tent, and we have many elected officials from different faiths for whom faith is something very important to them,” said Ben McAdams, the Democratic nominee in Utah’s 1st District and a volunteer Sunday School teacher in his Latter-day Saint congregation in Salt Lake City. “The Republican Party of Donald Trump does not seem to be reflecting the Christian values that I grew up with.”
Doug Pagitt, executive director of progressive group Vote Common Good, counts nine clergy running for federal office this cycle as Democrats — something he hasn’t seen before.
“The idea that a faith leader, especially a white faith leader, would run as a Democrat and be forthright about it … it’s really unusual,” Pagitt said. “We’ve had candidates [in the past] whose moms were pastors, and they were nervous about mentioning that in the Democratic Party circles. But that seems to have shifted and changed.”
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