Christa Pike -where does she stand legally?

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Just this really. Christ a is obviously being giving life saving treatment at hospital but where does she now stand legally. I suppose she probably has irreversible brain damage so will this not allow a second execution to take place? Is this a cruel and unusual punishment?

[Note from MNHQ - edited your title, OP]

Many States are already looking to bring back firing squad for exactly this reason. And ......it's cheaper.

Can someone explain to me like Im five why they are giving her life saving treatment? I dont agree with execution at all but I also can’t understand why they are now trying to save her?

god what a mess

Personally feel like executions should focus on the serial pedo rapists that can’t be cured if anyone but hey ho.

Omg this made me laugh 🤣

You may feel differently if someone murdered your family member.

Bloody hell

I think after two injections that she was deemed to be alive, so it was considered that the injections had failed.

I wonder if this will have any implications for places like Dignitas, who I presume use similar drugs?

there are some cases from the late Middle Ages and the Modern Era where people who survived executions were set free afterwards. Due to presumed godly intervention but (afaik) also due to the “logic” that the person was sentenced to be executed. If the execution was performed and the person still alive, the sentence was considered to have been enacted / fulfilled..

Anyhow. It seems like the state was given the right and duty to execute her (once) with two injections. That’s not the same as being allowed and required to try again or cause lasting injury. Is the state now liable? Is there a (renewed) duty of care? One would assume that to be the case, but I am not an American legal scholar…

I thought if a lethal injection failed they were reprieved? Or is that different per state?

The DP is barbaric. I judge any country still using it. This woman was raped and abused from age 2, her brain was not matured and likely damaged as a result of her childhood, when she committed this appalling murder. She needed LWOP as she would likely never be safe in society.

The State imposed the DP on a brain damaged 18yr old (at time of offence) girl. That’s just as barbaric as the crime she committed. Let that sit with you for a bit and think about it. I’ve no doubt the more brutal of you don’t care. I do though and this is the ultimate in “two wrongs don’t make a right”.

IF she survives it’s likely she will have a brain even more damaged. Colleen Slemmer’s Mum doesn’t see justice, What a mess and it could have been avoided but parts of America are just beyond redemption.

I’d never heard of this case before https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/05/christa-pike-death-row-clemency-petition

The medications are similar afaik.

the administration (ora vs lethal injection) and the medical supervision by actually qualified medical staff and doctors in the case of dignitas (who obviously aren’t allowed to participate in executions due to their medical oaths) are key differences however…

Dignitas I believe use medically qualified staff. I don’t think the death penalty lethal injection is given by qualified people

Christ, a pike! 🎣 😮

Can't find anything to confirm she was raped at 2. Keep reading it in here but wiki says 11.

Equally horrific of course - but let's aim to keep facts straight.

I think they should just get on with it and execute as quickly as possible. The girl she tortured, carved symbols into while still alive, and who's skull she smashed in and carried a piece of in her pocket afterwards is still dead. And will stay dead. No reprieve for her. No reprieve for her family. No reprieve for her murderer.

Fucking sickening. US is so backwards, bloody hell. How are they any better in Iran, in this respect?

I agree the murder was horrific but state-approved murder is also horrific and should not exist in a civilized society.

I would imagine there is no protocol because if Im right medics dont legally get involved with executions, it goes against the hippocratic oath. So its botched quite a lot anyway as I understand. She wont be able to be denied treatment in hospital because she is being treated by proper medics there. So then back to prison to try again perhaps.

And I think availability of the drugs. Pharma companies are apparently too ethical to supply these drugs?

Dignitas are not executing people, they are not strapped to a trolley and killed by fuck knows who while still conscious. Its done by qualified doctors, including anaesthetists, and its a process rather than an act.

Absolutely but why dont the executioners use the same drugs then

Just as animals are peacefully put to sleep. Qualified professionals and the proper drugs are the key

Because most pharmaceutical refuse to supply them