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.
In this day and age of cameras everywhere and dna testing. Yes, you can 100% guarantee that some people have committed the crime. The problem become between ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ and 100%. Examples: Gary Ridgeway, Ted Bundy, Ed Gein. (But hey, according to you they might be innocent, let’s give them a standard of living better than the poor in our society)
First of all, the fact that American prisoners have it better than poor in your society speaks volumes about how fucked up your society is. This shouldn’t be the case in the first place and has nothing to do with Death Row.
Secondly, you cannot take back a murder. Simple as that. Innocent people will get executed.
Thirdly, Anders Breivik in Norway will not be executed and he shouldn’t be. He should be left to rot without ever being freedom again. Just killing someone just lets them off easily.
I feel that some of these people have not seen the horrors posted online for morale boosting of serious crimes and their conspirators. Go ask all the veterans what they see over seas from any country, take your pick. Suicide car people are often not extremists in the sense you might think shown on the news. Their often innocent people chained into rigged cars and forced to drive into convoys. People are sick. These are not people who I want sharing my life along side.
We have modern tech. It helps tremendously to curb innocent death penalty cases. An imperfect system overall in every justice system across the globe. No pro death penalty person wants an innocent to be hurt. I agree with that aspect of pro life people entirely. But truly verified guilty people. Let them go feed the soil. That is more productive than the acts they commit.
What is the bar for someone being truly guilty? And how would you 100% make sure that no innocent person would ever fall victim for death row?
Because as the law is written today, innocent people are getting murdered.
How could you prove, without a reason of a doubt, that a person was not set up for a crime they did not commit?