Tennessee’s Shocking Move After Christa Pike’s Bizarre Double Execution Stuns Nation
In the past, there have been seven people in the U.S. who have survived attempted ex*cutions because the capital punishment team failed to access a vein to successfully administer the pentobarbital, Robin said.
But Christa’s case was the first time someone was still alive after actually receiving the lethal injection, she added.
Many were quick to condemn Tennessee officials as they waited for answers about what had happened to Christa.
“The incompetence of the Tennessee DOC sets the bar at the lowest level tonight,” Abraham Bonowitz, the Co-Founder of De*th Penalty Action, a U.S.-based advocacy organization dedicated to stopping capital punishment and abolishing the de*th penalty, told Bored Panda.
“There are no other words. This is an outrage. How do they sleep at night?” he added.
Shortly before midnight, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said he had ordered an investigation into what went wrong.
The state can now pursue another ex*cution date, and this is expected to raise a constitutional fight over whether putting Christa through a second attempt would be cruel and unusual punishment.
Christa previously asked if she could be hanged instead of given the lethal injection
Earlier this month, Christa’s lawyers had filed a clemency petition, hoping to stop the scheduled ex*cution.
They noted that the convicted woman had a history of being s**ually ab*sed as a child and had mental health issues. But these revelations came to light only after she was sentenced to de*th.
Her lawyers argued that if her childhood history was known earlier, then Christa would not have been sentenced to de*th as a teenager.
In a statement included in the clemency petition, Christa said she wasn’t afraid to be ex*cuted, but she was “nervous” about the process.
She made a request to be hanged instead of being given the lethal injection, claiming she had a rare blood disorder that could make it more difficult to find a vein and also affect the way her body reacts to pentobarbital.
The 50-year-old also requested an all-female squad to carry out the ex*cution in front of witnesses, including the victim’s family. Her lawyers said the reason behind this was because of the PTSD she suffered at the hands of men. She was s**ually ab*sed from her toddler years and was allegedly rap*d when she was 11 and 17.
“Obviously it’s not meant to be,” one commented online
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