> Tennessee Fails to Execute Woman After 2 Doses of Lethal Injection Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the e

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Because they make everything way too complicated.
As noted above, give here some free seized Fentanyl. Or hang her.
But dems fuq it all up.

Why not have them torn apart by a pack of dogs, you fuqing ghoul?

Pounding a wooden stake through the heart... is the only way to be sure.

Sockpuppet wrote:

Why not have them torn apart by a pack of dogs, you fuqing ghoul?

The dogs would develop a taste for human blood.

They should inquire if they want to commit suicide, a lot of them probably do and woud do so electivly in a self initiated procedure.

Nevermind. I found out. If she continues to 'live', the state is probably on the hook for her indefinite 'care'. Fuq.


Christa Pike, the convicted murderer who survived a botched execution attempt last week, may never fully recover, her lawyers revealed, as she remains unconscious in a heavily guarded hospital room.

Pike, the first woman to be put to death by Tennessee in over 200 years, has been hooked up to a ventilator since last Wednesday after shockingly surviving two rounds of a lethal injection she was sentenced to for the sadistic 1995 murder of her classmate.

She is the first death row inmate to survive a successful injection of pentobarbital — which had left her snoring and unconscious but still breathing while strapped to a gurney at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution death chamber on Wednesday night.

“We don’t know right now, and we may never know, what sort of torture she endured during that process,” one of Pike’s lawyers, Stephen Ferrell, told Jake Tapper on CNN Sunday.

While Pike, 50, dodged death, her condition is still not much better, having failed to regain consciousness or say anything since the attempted execution.

She remains “critically ill,” Ferrell said. “We don’t really know the prognosis yet and may not know for several days.”

“It remains to be seen what the future is,” he continued. “I think one of the main things that will leave this up in the air for a while is the fact that we don’t know what the prognosis is — as in, the long-term prognosis. If she recovers — she may not fully recover.”

“And there may be issues about her competence. We just don’t know any of this,” the attorney said.

Pike’s legal team has been unable to see her as she languishes in the hospital, where she is “guarded,” he added.

Fallout from the botched killing led to the resignation of the state’s prison chief Frank Strada, and even received comment from President Donald Trump, who was baffled at the failed execution.

Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the brutal murder of her 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer in a jealous rage.

Ferrell has requested that Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee commute Pike’s sentence to life in prison in light of the failed execution.

Unless Pike fully recovers, it’s unlikely the state will try to execute her again, according to legal experts.

“She can’t be executed if she is brain injured and doesn’t understand the proceedings,” Professor Deborah Denno of the Fordham School of Law told The Post.

“The United States Supreme Court recognized in a case involving a dementia patient in 2019 that you can’t execute someone who’s not aware of the punishment that they’re going to receive.”

https://x.com/SaltyGoat17/status/2105999992620302679

SamplesBoi wrote:

I am going with they missed the vein.

I was right.

Christa Pike has regained consciousness.

https://x.com/keribla/status/2107574325092172140

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Judge I’Ashea Myles granted the motion, adding, “This case is unique to say the least.”

Lololilol
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I'd say Colleen Slemmer and her family have received justice at this point.  Time to let her go assuming she can recover.

Christa Pike is “up and walking” in the hospital after she cheated death and survived her botched execution last week — which she is “very aware” of, according to her legal team.

Pike, 50, is still mentally “foggy” after she survived two lethal injections from the Tennessee Department of Corrections on Sept. 30, but is extraordinarily moving around her hospital room a week later, her lawyer Stephen Ferrell told the BBC.

“What’s been described to me is that physically there’s quite a bit going on, that her arms are very injured and she’s not able to use them very much,” he told the outlet.

“She is up and walking for the first time today, but just around the room, not very far,” Ferrell added.

While Pike’s physical condition has improved, he described her mental state as “good and bad” and said it remains to be determined whether she suffered any permanent brain damage.

“Good that she is fairly with it, but she’s also somewhat foggy. She can lose her train of thought really easily and forgets where she’s going,” Ferrell said.

Pike was due to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years — but instead became the first prisoner ever to survive a lethal injection in the US.

The convicted murderer was initially described as unconscious and in critical condition when rushed from the death chamber at  Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville to the hospital last Wednesday.

But on Tuesday, she shocked the country and woke up.

“She is angry and confused about everything right now. She is very aware that the state tried to execute her,” her attorney Randall Spivey told reporters after a court hearing on Wednesday, where a judge ordered Tennessee officials to preserve syringes and other evidence.

Pike was administered two doses of pentobarbital using at least 7 needles, one of which came out of her arm bent at a 90-degree angle, her legal team claimed.

The convicted killer remains in critical care.

“Despite the severe damage she endured to her arms, she is still handcuffed and shackled to the bed. Her recovery is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery.”

Dr. Joel Zivot, an anesthesiologist who has advised Pike’s lawyers, earlier told the BBC that Pike is able to communicate in a “basic way” since she woke up and mistakenly thought it was still September.

Pike was sentenced to death for brutally torturing and killing her 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer with her boyfriend in a jealous rage in Jan. 1995, when she was 18.

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 Sept. 30 for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer. Pike soon after the failed procedure was on a ventilator, and her attorneys did not expect her to survive. But she woke up and began talking and walking with assistance.

Pike said she was "prepared to die" by execution, but instead "woke up alone in a hospital confused and in pain," according to the statement.

It's the first public comment attributed to Pike since the botched execution. She is the only person to ever survive being injected with lethal chemicals in an execution, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Pike has launched what will likely be a protracted legal battle to prevent a second attempt to put her to death. She was returned to prison earlier this month after a 10-day hospitalization and has continued receiving medical care, according to her lawyers.

"Since that night, I have been largely isolated in the prison's medical ward, away from other people and the human connections that mean so much to me," Pike said in the statement. "That isolation brings its own kind of pain. I spent 28 years in solitary confinement and much of what I am experiencing today is a repeat of that condition."

In the immediate aftermath of the botched execution, Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Lee ordered an investigation into what went wrong in the death chamber and indefinitely postponed another execution scheduled this year.

The failure to execute Pike also upset Slemmer's family, who said the attention on Pike's condition has taken attention away from the victim.

"I think the state owes me a big apology," May Martinez, Slemmer's mother, told CNN affiliate WTLV this month.

Lee is not inclined to commute Pike’s sentence, he told reporters this week in Nashville.

"She's still incarcerated under the laws of the State of Tennessee," Lee said, according to CNN affiliate WSMV. "I suspect her sentence will be the same as before unless determined otherwise by the courts."

Burn coal, pay tool. Repeatedly.