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New York Poast
Christa Pike had all-female execution team she requests before botched execution, lawyer revealsChrista Pike appeared to have an all-female execution staff — a request that was meant to be her dying wish, her attorneys revealed on Thursday.
“What I saw was consistent with that,” Randy Spivey said in response to a question about whether the execution team was composed of just women.
The 50-year-old convicted torture killer had requested only women attend to her in the death chamber because she was previously sexually abused — and she said that being put to death by a man would be too traumatizing.
“That was her biggest fear as the victim of sexual abuse, that she would be pinned down, prodded, poked, cut,” another of her lawyers, Stephen Ferrell, said.
The Tennessee murderer would have been the first woman the state put to death in 200 years — but instead she’s become the first known death row inmate to survive an execution attempt.
Pike was still pinned down for around an hour as medical staff struggled to set the two IV lines, Spivey said.
Pike managed survive the execution attempt but is in critical condition at the hospital — a stunning turn of events in the saga of the inmate who brutally killed a friend in 1995, when they were teens.
The drugs may have been injected into Pike’s arm muscle rather than a vein, Ferrell said.
Pike was more than courteous to her women executioners — and even thanked them when they finally inserted the lines, Spivey added.
“Pike was not just cooperative, but was trying to help instruct the people placing the IV lines where they could find [veins]. She over and over again said, ‘Please try up on my shoulder higher. Please try here, I think it will be okay,’” said the lawyer.
Her lawyers and supporters had petitioned for a stay of her execution that went all the way up to the Supreme Court at the last minute.
The murderess argued she had blown veins that would be difficult for the executioner to access, making her death extraordinarily excruciating.
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