Christa Pikes is awake and ‘talking’

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She’s out of the coma and talking to her lawyers. Aibu to think the state of Tennessee can’t possibly try to do the lethal injection again ? Surely not? People on Reddit are suggesting she might need an amputation of one of her arms because of how caustic pentobarbital is.

Christa Pike 'conscious and speaking at hospital' after failed execution in US
https://news.sky.com/share/13595950

Seems like she’s accidentally being tortured to death like the poor girl she killed. No more than she deserves.

I think she should be in a secure hospital. Where she is cared for. I don't know she should be released because she must have very complicated trauma and MH issues.

She now has a failed execution to add to her list of trauma and abuse.

Um, they choose to be on death row so long - with do you think it is? It's not the state's doing, it's because they're running endless appeals trying to get out of it. The prisoner could choose not to appeal if they preferred, then they wouldn't have the death sentence hanging over their heads for decades and the state could get on with applying the sentence it gave out.

There are some sick fuckers on this thread. Anyone who advocates smothering someone or caving in their skull as some have done on this thread are no better than the murderer they’re condoning.

I think its buying them time to have a think.

The people who were there must be traumatised having watched her and heard her asking if it was right then hear her snoring.

Do they really want to be a state that does death penalty?

Do they really want that to happen again?

Yes, to be honest. Admittedly I don’t have small children now. I’d be more anxious if I did. My neighbour could be a murderer or pedophile and I’d have no idea.

No one advocates her crime. You seem to advocate torturing a woman to death for something she did 30 years ago, as an extremely troubled teen. Will you then condemn her executioners who are torturing her now? Using unreliable drugs and methods to kill her? Should they get a firing squad instead?

Well no, because the executioners aren’t inflicting torture and murder on someone for fun, unlike Christa did.
What a ludicrous argument. And yes, people derisive to be punished for their crimes, regardless is it was 30 years ago.

It was 2001 and going by Wikipedia the person she attacked was in a fight with someone else.

I'm not saying she's a safe person or a model citizen but I think she deserves some compassion.

I find it hard to have sympathy with someone suffering from PTSD from watching a failed execution. What kind of monster chooses to watch an execution?

I agree.
IMO if you set out to deliberately separate another human being from their life you automatically forfeit the right to get any older.

In this case because of the condition of her veins, firing squad would have been quicker and more effective.

The person who is putting in the needle?
The prison officers?
Whoever dialed for the ambulances?
The people who were getting ready to remove the body?

The same people who'd be expected to be there the next time, her lawyers maybe?

I'm guessing but it certainly didn't happen in an empty room

Where have I advocated torturing her to death?

I’m referring to the posters on this thread who have stated that she should be smothered or have her skull caved in now that the lethal injection failed.

And yes. I think that executioners are murderers.

I have 0 doubt that they are all sadists who enjoy killing other people, murderers in their own right who take the job they do because they can live out their sadistic fantasies of killing people and do it legally and without consequence.

Anyone who works as an executioner is no more trustworthy than the people they execute.

Jesus Christ. Retributive justice makes no sense though does it? We dont rape rapists? We dont kidnap the children of abductors. Why? Because the authorities are supposed to be BETTER than the criminals. Thats the whole point. Otherwise there ARE no crimes and everyone can just go around doing whatever the hell they feel.like to each other surely?

Whilst I have every sympathy for her victim I also think that the death penalty is wrong on all levels, there would never be a case where I’d think ‘yes that’s the only way’. It doesn’t sit right that murder can be somehow validated when it is carried out by a government , the same government that deem it such a heinous crime that deserves the highest level punishment?

Clearly Christa Pike is a terrible person for what she did but we can’t say on one hand one woman didn’t deserve to suffer yet another does, the US seems to enjoy making women suffer though and for that separate reason alone I’d say the death penalty needs to be abolished as well as all the other reasons.

Yes, definitely best to avoid botched jobs - and frankly, while I don't have a moral issue with the death penalty, I don't like the government having the power to kill its citizens.

I think it would be difficult to get a highly trained marksman who is also willing to execute a person.

And yes, Pike was absolutely failed by the adults around her, as a child, and a teenager.

I said exactly this to DH.
I don't agree with state sanctioned murder, and I also don't see how that computes with Christianity but apparently in Tennessee it does, so surely this is a 'sign'.

I doubt so many of you would be quite so sympathetic if it was your daughter that she'd tortured and killed. I think Colleen's mum and family should decide whether they want her to return to Death Row,or stay in prison for the rest of her life.
Karma's a bitch,and I have no sympathy for her. Lots of people have horrific pasts but don't end up caving an innocent person's head in.

Maybe not for fun, but they are murdering for money.

The ONLY reason CP is suffering is BECAUSE she tortured and murdered “ another woman “ Colleen Slemmer. We CAN say that Colleen did not deserve to die but CP does BECAUSE of what she did. She took that poor girls life and brutally.

I would not fancy meeting some of you lot here on a dark night with your dark vengeful souls.

Christa has survived two lethal injections. There is no legal precedent for this, at the very least they are going to be tied up legally for a long time and are probably going to have to a rewrite DP laws.

in the meantime they will likely have to commute her sentence to LWOP which is what it should have been at the start. She was 18, an abused kid with an immature and likely stunted brain growth. Add in the fact that the brain does not fully mature until aged 25 or thereabouts and you have a problem.

If I was Colleen’s Mum I’d want the DP too but this won’t bring her daughter back, all it’s done is delay and delay justice as she sees it. Justice should have been LWOP from the start and she could then have mentally thrown away the key,

I think it’s absolutely possible to believe two things at the same time - that Colleen Slemmer’s family deserve justice and peace but that the State should not kill Christa Pike.

Living to an old age and dying in an American prison is not merciful.

I don’t think anyone regardless of their circumstances deserves to be killed.

Killing a killer to demonstrate that killing is wrong.
Makes no sense.

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