Pike survived a lethal injection execution on Wednesday. She was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of her classmate, Colleen Slemmer.
Christa Pike, the woman who survived an execution attempt in Tennessee earlier this week, is on a ventilator as she receives care in the hospital, her lawyers said in a new statement Friday.
“Christa remains critically ill and is receiving medical care for the devastating effects of Wednesday night’s events,” the lawyers’ statement said. “She is critically ill, unconscious, intubated and receiving breathing assistance through a ventilator.”
The statement said she is being treated for “the serious effects of the pentobarbital administered during the execution attempt, including significant injuries to both arms.”
It sucks even more because she was begging to be shot instead of an injection because of her child abuse.
I don’t know why life in prison wasn’t enough? She was removed from society and getting the psychological help she needed regularly.
I will also join the voices of “abolish the death penalty”, but if we had to have it because there exist people with a twisted sense of justice who seem to think there is such a thing as a righteous killing, then I think the condemned should be allowed to choose their method of execution.