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Time Running Out For Christa Pike

Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Wed Sep 30 09:44:52 2026

Execution scheduled for 10AM local time which means thatbshe has about 16 minutes left. 31 years on death row in virtual solitary confinement. Seems almost enough punishment.

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Re: Time Running Out For Christa Pike

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Sep 30 12:47:48 2026, in response to Time Running Out For Christa Pike, posted by TRAIN DUDE on Wed Sep 30 09:44:52 2026.

Way too long of a wait.



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Re: Time Running Out For Christa Pike

Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Wed Sep 30 14:05:47 2026, in response to Time Running Out For Christa Pike, posted by TRAIN DUDE on Wed Sep 30 09:44:52 2026.

She got a last minute stay of execuition granted by a 3 judge court of appeals panel

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Re: Time Running Out For Christa Pike

Posted by Mitch45 on Wed Sep 30 14:12:19 2026, in response to Time Running Out For Christa Pike, posted by TRAIN DUDE on Wed Sep 30 09:44:52 2026.

"Seems almost enough punishment."

Tell that to her victims and their families.

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Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Oct 2 08:50:11 2026, in response to Time Running Out For Christa Pike, posted by TRAIN DUDE on Wed Sep 30 09:44:52 2026.

New York Poast

Christa Pike had all-female execution team she requests before botched execution, lawyer reveals

Christa 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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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Oct 2 09:51:32 2026, in response to Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Oct 2 08:50:11 2026.

I doubt there’ll be another execution attempt. Most likely she’ll be resentenced to life imprisonment once she’s back from the hospital.

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Oct 2 11:06:13 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Oct 2 09:51:32 2026.

If she survives that is. Word is that she's in a local hospital in critical condition with possible brain damage. I agree that they shouldn't try again. Just lock her up and throw away the key and be done with it.

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Oct 2 15:13:42 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Oct 2 11:06:13 2026.

No. If she survives (and it looks like she might), it should be done and this time with a real execution team, not a hand-picked bunch of sympathetic sycophants.

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Oct 2 15:38:09 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Oct 2 15:13:42 2026.

If she survives, considering what she went thru, her legal team should should go the eighth amendment of the US Constitution protection against cruel and unusual punishment route.

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Oct 2 15:57:23 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Oct 2 15:38:09 2026.

Maybe they'll find lethal injection to be cruel and unusual.

I oppose capital punishment for murder in general, but it's not at all for "bleeding heart" reasons. The Constitution clearly contemplated execution by hanging, as this was not at all unusual, but this novel form was absolutely unusual and it might finally be found to be cruel.

The real reason they don't do firing squad is because they don't want to clean up the blood and brains, and because they don't want to traumatize the audience (the family of the victims).

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Oct 2 16:34:56 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Oct 2 15:38:09 2026.

Too many slip-and-fall lawyers. They need to be disbarred.

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Oct 2 17:54:50 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Oct 2 15:57:23 2026.

This is the second botched execution in Tennessee this year (Tony Van Crothers was the other one last may) The Gov has placed a moratorium on executions until further notice.

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Fri Oct 2 21:30:54 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Oct 2 16:34:56 2026.

Richie Aprile runs it.

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Fri Oct 2 21:32:17 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Oct 2 15:57:23 2026.

Firing squads aim for the center mass of the chest.

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Oct 2 21:43:59 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by BILLBKLYN on Fri Oct 2 21:32:17 2026.

Makes sense.

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by mtk52983 on Sat Oct 3 17:27:12 2026, in response to Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Oct 2 08:50:11 2026.

The only reason this is happening is that the bleeding hearts have convinced the producers of more effective lethal injection drugs to not supply them.

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Sat Oct 3 18:50:57 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Oct 2 17:54:50 2026.

In both cases the execution eas botched because the IV was not properly inserted. Why, because Tennessee procedures call for non medical personnel to administer the IV.

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by AlM on Sun Oct 4 11:14:43 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by mtk52983 on Sat Oct 3 17:27:12 2026.

Sounds like a normal marketing decision to me. Say you have multibillion dollar sales of a drug that relieves pain. Why associate that drug with its ability to kill people?

Have you ever been administered propophol as anesthesia for a medical procedure? Doctors have to spend huge amounts of time persuading patients that it's safe if properly administered. This is what drug companies are trying to avoid.



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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by AlM on Sun Oct 4 11:17:27 2026, in response to Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Oct 2 08:50:11 2026.

Hmm. What I'm reading is that the team was supervised by TN Corrections Commissioner Randy Strada, who resigned in the aftermath. Strada is a man and this isn't the first botched execution in his career.



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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Oct 4 13:15:53 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by mtk52983 on Sat Oct 3 17:27:12 2026.

Good

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Oct 4 20:47:54 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Oct 2 15:13:42 2026.

She was to be executed. Those efforts failed. Now there trying to save her life via hospitalization. If she's condemned to death, why not just take her off life support and just wait till she dies? Something don't make sense here.

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Oct 4 21:26:36 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Oct 4 20:47:54 2026.

No; the "efforts" were with a deliberate eye towards keeping her alive. She should have had zero say as to the composition of her execution "team" that engineered this fiasco.

Yes, she should be removed from life support; definitely agree with that.

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Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice

Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Oct 4 21:26:42 2026, in response to Re: Christa Pike had all-female execution team that “botched” lethal injection, twice, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Oct 4 20:47:54 2026.

No; the "efforts" were with a deliberate eye towards keeping her alive. She should have had zero say as to the composition of her execution "team" that engineered this fiasco.

Yes, she should be removed from life support; definitely agree with that.

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