The lone woman on Tennessee’s death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said “executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals” and Christa Pike was “still alive and snoring,” her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike “has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat” and that curtains to the death chamber “have gone down twice.”
This fiasco has been nothing but cruel and unusual punishment over and over again for this woman for a matter that should have been settled 30 years ago. Southern states make me sick - led by the “party of life” my ass. They don’t give a single shit about “life” once that person is born.
They’re pro-birth, not pro-life.
conservative voters are obsessed with executions, they love it.
Common misunderstanding. They don’t give a shit about the unborn. It’s all for show and to punish.
it’s always easy to speak for something that isn’t born yet
Just a few follow up questions about the subject will show it’s mostly about punishing and controlling women.
System is working as designed.