The Tennessee police chief who oversaw the investigation into murderer Christa Pike said he was frustrated about the focus from the public on the perpetrator instead of the victim. Former Knoxville Police Chief Phil Keith said the public’s obsession with Pike represented a growing tendency to “glorify the offender” while forgetting about the victim. Pike,…
Pike alive but in critical condition as experts call ordeal that unfolded in Tennessee Wednesday ‘unimaginably barbaric’Top lawyers, doctors and members of the faith community are calling for a moratorium on the US death penalty after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike left the prisoner alive but in critical condition and receiving…
Tennessee’s Governor Bill Lee has halted executions for the remainder of the year after a death row prisoner survived two lethal injections on Wednesday. According to her lawyers, Christa Pike was still breathing after she was strapped to a gurney and injected with two syringes of pentobarbital in a botched execution that spanned more than two hours. Prior…
A lawyer for Pike demanded that the governor commute her sentence after an attempt to execute her by lethal injection failed.
Tennessee officials failed to carry out the lethal injection of death row inmate Christa Pike on Wednesday. Her attorneys say she is alive and in critical condition after being given two separate doses of pentobarbital meant to kill her. Pike was sentenced to death for the gruesome murder of her classmate in 1995. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Deborah…
Pike survived an execution by pentobarbital shots Wednesday and was later transported to an off-site medical facility.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Thursday called on Tennessee to reintroduce the electric chair for executions after death-row prisoner Christa Pike survived two lethal injections the day before. Blachburn, who is the GOP nominee in the Volunteer State’s gubernatorial race, called the botched execution “tragic” and said it prolonged the grief process for…
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike -- who is now in the hospital after a botched execution -- was given the all-female lethal injection team she had requested, her attorneys revealed on Thursday.
California has 564 inmates under death sentences — and gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra is weighing in on the state’s death penalty after Tennessee’s botched execution of Christa Pike.
