Christa Pike: What to know about the case of Tennessee death row inmate
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Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered classmate Colleen Slemmer. She was due to be the first woman the state had executed in more than 200 years.

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.”

  • im_fine_sandy@nord.pubEnglish
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    8 days ago

    God this is tedious.

    My comment is a response to the parent comment:

    So killing her doesn’t work, they bring an ambulance, take her to the hospital, let her go back to prison for a year and wait for them to try again?

    What is the alternative, once the injections have not worked ?

    You’re correct, of course: don’t do the injections or any other method of execution in the first place. However, supposing you’ve already botched the injections what is the appropriate course of action?