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…
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…
In May, officials called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, after failing to place an IV.
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…
The botched execution in Tennessee of Christa Pike – who survived despite being subject to two doses of lethal injection on Wednesday – has reignited furious debate about the death penalty in the U.S.
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,…
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.
