TN anti-death penalty group calls Pike's failed execution 'predictable'
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How legislatures and the courts sabotage the death penalty
State legislators and the courts have turned the death penalty into a grimly farcical process, feeding the cheapest arguments against it. The attempted execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee showcases this fact. For full context, an 18-year-old Pike and an accomplice lured Colleen Slemmer into the woods, tortured her with a box cutter and a […]
Lawyers, doctors and religious leaders in the US are calling for a moratorium on executions after the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee. Pike, 50, was scheduled to be executed for the 1995 murder of a peer. During the procedure, she received two full doses of pentobarbital but survived and was taken for medical treatment. Witnesses said she was still breathing and had a pulse about an hour after the first injection. Her lawyers said…
After the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, Sister Helen Prejean, the Catholic religious at the center of the film Dead Man Walking, joined the growing choir of voices against the death penalty in America. (ANSA)
The case of a murderer who survived her attempted execution has fueled the debate about the death penalty in the USA again. The woman is apparently still in critical condition. Her lawyer speaks of various failures. By Giselle Ucar.[more]]>
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