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.
The point of capital punishment is not justice. It is to “heal” the sovereignty of the state, which it deems to have been injured by behavior outside of it’s control. First it’s criminals killing innocent people, then what’s next? The populace killing their oppressors? Honestly the same can be said about the politics surrounding abortion. They don’t care that a pregnancy is terminated, they care that they had no say. The state are to be the only one’s with the power to grant life or death. This is how you reconcile the logical inconsistency of the pro-life people being the same as the pro capital punishment people people. It’s all about the sovereignty of the state. This, incidentally, is also the motivation behind Please Hangseth’s attempt to reestablish public execution.
Yup it’s about establishing the monopoly on violence, back in the day the used the excuse of the mandate of god, now they use the excuse of flag and country