Christa Pike execution halted

[supersonic06]

lucky gal it was a savage brutal killing

A US court has halted the execution of a woman in Tennessee shortly before she was due to die from lethal injection, three decades after she murdered a classmate

Stay of execution for US woman shortly before injection

A US court has halted the execution of a woman in Tennessee shortly before she was due to die from lethal injection, three decades after she murdered a classmate.

www.rte.ie

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

They made some bollox of that anyway

 

[Coach and Six]

America is a fucked up nation masquerading as the Greatest Country In The World. They can't even kill people properly. A metaphor for what they are up to in the Middle East at the moment.

I read her story on Wikipedia. She was obviously was completely fucked up as a child from being sexually abused and went on to commit a heinous murder of a classmate when she was 19. Now at the age of 50, after 30+ years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement, they are still trying to execute her. It's absolutely barbaric in the 21st century that the death penalty exists in a "first world" country.

Christa Pike - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I know we can be a soft touch in Europe at times but at least there's some sense of mercy and understanding in our justice systems.

 

[sigourney's knickers]

Stuff of horror movies!!



Kill her again!

 

[sigourney's knickers]

Thank you, America.


Now there's only one certainty in life.

 

[supersonic06]

Heard on the radio her small veins may have been what saved her. Mad stuff altogether

 

[supersonic06]

America is a fucked up nation masquerading as the Greatest Country In The World. They can't even kill people properly. A metaphor for what they are up to in the Middle East at the moment.

I read her story on Wikipedia. She was obviously was completely fucked up as a child from being sexually abused and went on to commit a heinous murder of a classmate when she was 19. Now at the age of 50, after 30+ years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement, they are still trying to execute her. It's absolutely barbaric in the 21st century that the death penalty exists in a "first world" country.

Christa Pike - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I know we can be a soft touch in Europe at times but at least there's some sense of mercy and understanding in our justice systems.

the satanic panic was in full swing at the time the boyfriend carving the pentegram onto the victim didn't help her cause

 

[markyboy]

They made some bollox of that anyway

Good news early in the day for her, bad news later on.

 

[markyboy]

America is a fucked up nation masquerading as the Greatest Country In The World. They can't even kill people properly. A metaphor for what they are up to in the Middle East at the moment.

I read her story on Wikipedia. She was obviously was completely fucked up as a child from being sexually abused and went on to commit a heinous murder of a classmate when she was 19. Now at the age of 50, after 30+ years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement, they are still trying to execute her. It's absolutely barbaric in the 21st century that the death penalty exists in a "first world" country.

Christa Pike - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I know we can be a soft touch in Europe at times but at least there's some sense of mercy and understanding in our justice systems.

“It was the second time this year that Tennessee has been unable to carry out an execution. In May, state officials called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and killing three people in 1994, after executioners tried and failed for over an hour to place an IV to administer pentobarbital.”

 

[El Guapo]

“It was the second time this year that Tennessee has been unable to carry out an execution. In May, state officials called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and killing three people in 1994, after executioners tried and failed for over an hour to place an IV to administer pentobarbital.”

They can't get any more of the lethal drug AFAIK they used get it on licence from one of the pharma companies but they've all refused to supply any new stuff and the stock of old stuff is no longer effective for a "compassionate" death

they're back to using Firing squads in a few states.

it's absolutely Barbaric