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Pike walks after failed execution

Tennessee death-row inmate Christa Pike is awake and walking independently in hospital after surviving a botched execution, her lawyer said. Her recovery has renewed scrutiny of the death penalty, while questions remain over whether Tennessee could attempt another execution; advocates have urged Gov. Bill Lee to commute her sentence.

by Carl T. Bergstrom

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Carl T. Bergstrom

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If we do not immediately eliminate the death penalty in the United States we are not only a barbaric nation but a willfully vicious and bloodthirsty one with a "pro-life" court whose hypocrisy puts Robespierre to shame.

Christa Pike, Confused After Failed Tennessee Execution, Is at Center of Legal Storm (Gift Article)

Her awareness and condition deepen ethical and legal questions after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her for murdering a classmate decades ago.

www.nytimes.com

October 8, 2026 at 7:51 AM

by Michael Shermer

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Dennis Raphael

@dennisraphael.bsky.social

Barbaric nation.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

Christa Pike’s Lawyers Say She Is Angry and Confused After Failed Execution

www.nytimes.com

October 7, 2026 at 9:46 PM

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Radley Balko

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Fuck this.

I don’t know what else to say.

Prison kills.

mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...

Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies

After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.

mississippitoday.org

October 7, 2026 at 9:44 PM

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Timothy McBride

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Christa Pike, Awake and Angry, Is at the Center of a Legal Storm www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

Christa Pike, Awake and Angry, Is at the Center of a Legal Storm

Her awareness and condition deepen ethical and legal questions after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her for murdering a classmate decades ago.

www.nytimes.com

October 7, 2026 at 10:27 PM

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