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.
I did a little research. Supposedly it’s millions of dollars to execute someone which is just ridiculous overall. With life in prison they estimate costs roughly to 1.1millon USD per inmate. While execution can cost 2m to 4.5m which is astronomical per inmate. No execution should cost that much what so ever. So there is that in favor of pro life. Economically according to multiple online sources it’s cheaper to do life in prison. Which I still disagree with as well. But economics apparently doesn’t lie. Numbers have changed massively since I seen them years ago.