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.
Christa Pike is critically ill in a Nashville hospital after surviving two attempts by Tennessee to execute her by lethal injection, her lawyers say. Pike, 50, was sentenced to death in the 1990s for a murder she committed as a teenager, with her lawyers saying she has a blood disorder that made it difficult to establish an intravenous line. Pike’s lawyer…
Lethal injections are under scrutiny after Christa Pike survived two rounds of drugs during Tennessee's failed attempt to execute her.Why it matters: Lethal injection has been the dominant U.S. execution method for decades, accounting for roughly 89% of the 1,683 executions carried out since 1976, per the Death Penalty Information Center.Driving the news:…
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…
The BBC’s Ione Wells reports from outside the Tennessee hospital where Pike is said to have arrived Wednesday night after surviving two lethal injection attempts.
Pike survived an execution by pentobarbital shots Wednesday and was later transported to an off-site medical facility.
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.
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,…
Christa Gail Pike was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years after her 1995 murder conviction, but she survived two doses of a lethal drug in what a death penalty expert called an unprecedented failure.
