Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection a month ago, is speaking out for the first time, saying she is recovering, “but healing is not the same as being okay.”
“There hasn’t been a moment since that night when I haven’t been in pain. My body hurts. My arms hurt. My hands hurt. My throat hurts. I still struggle to speak,” Pike said in a written statement her attorneys say was dictated to them. “And the pain isn’t just physical. There is pain in my mind and in my soul.”
Pike, 50, was hospitalized after she survived two doses of pentobarbital as the state attempted to execute her on September 30 for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer. Soon after the failed procedure, Pike was on a ventilator, and her attorneys did not expect her to survive. But she woke up and later began talking and walking with assistance.
What’s the legality with this ?
Is she still going to be executed…again?
Doubtful. They had their chance and botched it. They are going to want to draw as little attention to this as possible. Likely just keep her locked up for life.
This has happened before and the court ruled the person was still condemned to die, at least one person has been executed twice.
I thought I saw somewhere that it’s something like 7 percent of the people fail to die from it. So if that’s true and they gave her 2 doses that day and it didn’t work, you’d imagine the population would think finding a different method would be the preferred way to move forward. Then again… Most people who don’t believe in the death penalty likely wouldn’t want to vote for a new method, thus making it those who don’t want the death penalty, and those who don’t care that they are tortured voting potentially for the same result. : /