by Jessica Corbett | Nov 2, 2026 | Capital Punishment, Christa Pike, Death Penalty, News, Tennessee
Christa Pike, whose twice-botched execution in Tennessee last month has renewed calls for abolishing the death penalty in the United States, spoke out about her experience on Friday, a month after she had “walked into the execution chamber at Riverbend men’s prison prepared to die.” “I had made my peace,” Pike said in a statement dictated by her legal team. “I had told the people who loved me…
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by Amy Goodman | Oct 2, 2026 | Capital Punishment, Christa Pike, Death Penalty, death sentence, Execution, Interview, Lethal Injection, Tennessee
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 to the scheduled execution…
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