Independent inquiry ordered after failed execution of Pike, who was convicted of 1994 murder
Tennessee’s governor on Thursday said it was “deeply disturbing” that his state botched the execution of a death row prisoner who remained alive and snoring 40 minutes after receiving a double dose of the lethal drug that should have quickly killed her.
Bill Lee, a Republican, has suspended all executions in the state until at least the end of the year and ordered an independent inquiry after Wednesday night’s failed attempt to put to death Christa Pike, who was convicted of murder, at the execution chamber in Nashville.
Meanwhile, Pike, 50, remained in the hospital on Thursday afternoon. “We don’t have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment, but we do know that she is alive right now and receiving life-saving medical care,” Randy Spivey, one of her attorneys, said at an afternoon press conference.
Fuck, that’s so depressing. It’s wild that the US still executes people, but mentally ill teenagers who suffered abuse as kids? These people need help, not the death penalty.
Oh the state kills a LOT of mentally disabled and unwell people. It’s almost always been used as a way to get “undesirable” poor/black/“inferior” people out of the world in the US, and that’s especially true with the South.
If she wasn’t insane before, she surely will be after 30 years in prison. It’s sickening to think about.
What’s the fucking point? Private prison gets paid? Just give them the money. There’s no need to torture people to achieve whatever the prisons think they’re doing.
Wildly she was actually much saner last week than in the 90s. She got mental and spiritual help in prison
the news say she is in coma. I think she is likely brain dead now