Tennessee: Execution of Christa Pike stayed!

[Vixen]

Christa Pike, 50, was due to be executed by lethal injection today in Tennessee, after the governor refused a stay. But now it looks as though a last minute appeal has succeeded.

Pike brutally murdered her friend, as a young adult.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2105299077185646677

 

[Vixen]

The stay is vacated. The execution is on.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2105431258608312711

 

[The Atheist]

... brutally murdered...

I'm seeing that couplet a lot.

Let me know when you find a non-brutal murder.

 

[Thermal]

I'm seeing that couplet a lot.

Let me know when you find a non-brutal murder.

Fair point. I don't recall the last time someone was reported as being comically murdered?

 

[arthwollipot]

They ◊◊◊◊◊◊ it up.

Tennessee woman ‘snoring’ and still alive as execution halted, witnesses say

Christa Pike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, was heard snoring 40 minutes after lethal doses administered, witnesses said

www.theguardian.com

 

[The Atheist]

Jesus H Christ

 

[Orphia Nay]

Wow.

 

[Helen]

Sickening.

 

[Planigale]

That is going to put a block on death by lethal injection more generally.

 

[Vixen]

I'm seeing that couplet a lot.

Let me know when you find a non-brutal murder.

Here in Finland, we have a category of murder called, 'murder that is particularly cruel and brutal'. However, being a civilised* country, most murderers only get about nine to ten years.

*Whilst I believe people who kill should be rightfully found guilty (e.g., Letby, Knox) I am not sure I believe in whole life sentences or the death penalty. The concept of justice also includes, 'mercy'. People do change as they grow older, especially crimes committed as young adults. Obviously whether they get parole or not would depend on where they are at and any signs of repentence. In her 'final' letter, Pike made no apology to her victim's family for what she did, so one wonders who is advising her.

 

[Nessie]

Just when I think the USA cannot get any worse, it does.

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike survives execution attempt after two injections

Killer Christa Pike's lawyer says she is being given "life-saving measures" in hospital after two syringes of pentobarbital.

www.bbc.co.uk

"Tennessee's execution protocol calls for a secondary set of drug syringes in case the person being put to death does not die after the first set. But it does not spell out what happens if the subject is alive after the second set."

 

[zooterkin]

That is going to put a block on death by lethal injection more generally.

You would hope so, but I wouldn't bet on it.

 

[Nessie]

The reports I have read suggest the issue was using really old chemicals to make up the lethal dose.

 

[Vixen]

The reports I have read suggest the issue was using really old chemicals to make up the lethal dose.

I don't know if it is still true but barbiturates were used quite heavily in prisons to aid sleep, so perhaps Pike had built up a tolerance to the drug.

 

[turingtest]

It's bad enough, IMO, for the state to set itself up as an agent of revenge, then to go beyond even that to pursue a legal process that amounts to sheer unreasoning vindictiveness; but it's a really bad look when they add incompetence to the mix.

 

[zooterkin]

Executions in the state suspended, at least until the end of the year.

Tennessee governor suspends all executions after Christa Pike’s lethal injections fail

Independent inquiry ordered after halted execution of Pike, who was convicted of murder

www.theguardian.com

 

[Thermal]

It's getting pretty bad when the police kill without even trying, but tha State can't pull it off given their own providing of their ideal conditions.

Can't they just bring a cop in the execution suite, just in case of an eventuality like this? Just toss a cel phone in her hand or something and tap on the cop's shoulder.

 

[Carrot Flower King]

The reports I have read suggest the issue was using really old chemicals to make up the lethal dose.

I also note that the dosage used in the US for execution is a lot less than used in Switzerland for assisted suicide (5g compared to 10 g, which was later revised to 15 g).

And I assume there wasn't a numpty who managed to miss a vein...

 

[Andy_Ross]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com%2Fpost%2F3mwt3kgdlnr2d

 

[Helen]

This is barbaric.