Pike’s lawyers said she is back in same prison she’s lived in for last 30 years and will continue to receive medical care
Christa Pike has been discharged from the hospital after surviving Tennessee’s botched 30 September attempt to execute her by lethal injection and is back in prison, her lawyers said on Saturday.
Saturday’s update about Pike came 10 days after the death row prisoner was given two doses of pentobarbital, a lethal injection drug, in what proved to be a failed execution attempt. She was hospitalized after surviving the botched execution and was declared brain dead on Monday.
But in a shocking turnaround, on Thursday her lawyer said that she was “up and walking” – though she remained “somewhat foggy” and wasn’t able to use her arms very much.
Pike said that her arms were burning during the failed execution and asked if it was supposed to feel that way. Witnesses present in the chamber said that “nothing was normal” while officials have maintained that they followed every step of Tennessee’s approved execution protocol.
The entire justice system is imperfect. I acknowledge that to a certain degree. Modern forensics has brought this much further than before. While I certainly don’t think everyone should be able to use the death penalty. I do not want to share the planet with people who commit atrocities against innocent. I entirely believe that some cases that are beyond probable should call for the death penalty. Let it be one of yours who get harmed, raped, unalived, tortured, or something horrible, I am not saying an average crime but some heinous. I bet you will change your mind. Depending on the case, inmates even kill child predators. We have so many molestors out on the streets just lookup a map of your local US area, its sickening. Repeat offenders at that. I don’t want these people sharing the same space as me. Period. Multiple convictions. Not one off cases.
A lot of modern forensics is quack science and influenced by TV copaganda.
70% of forensic evidence fails to be reproducible in blind tests, 80% of forensic labs lack a standardized review procedure, 75% of crime scenes are contaminated, 45% of police departments outsource their CSI, and even if you were to fix all that - forensic evidence is not a smoking gun, it is subject to interpretation - often by experts paid by the prosecutor for their desired outcome.
Edit - see for yourself- is this person guilty or not?
I sort of mentioned forensics as umbrella term. Modern video, cell tracking, overall quality of evidence is far greater than ever before. But I do see your graph as interesting and thanks for posting.
“The system is imperfect so there’s nothing we can do except accepting it 🤷”.
Get the fuck out of here. Most of the civilized world does not have death row and we can still deal with violent criminals.
The system being imperfect is a PERFECT reason to NOT have death row…
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