For those wondering:

A botched execution doesn’t invalidate the underlying conviction, and a death warrant orders a completed execution, not a finite number of tries. She’s still in custody and technically still subject to another attemt.

If I were her attorney I’d push to have her sentence commuted to life without parole, citing that her physical condition makes lethal injection extremely difficult, and that what’s she’s been put through constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

Speaking personally, in a civilized society, we’d be as horrified at what’s been done to her as we are at what she actually did. Don’t care to argue with anyone about that, that’s just how I see it.

And she's now at the hospital where they are trying to keep her alive. Like can't they decide? Do you want her to die or not?

After reading the news about Christa Pike, I found an article on Wikipedia listing a bunch of botched executions.

Since 2000, 5% of lethal injections have gone wrong in one way or another. That's 17 botched injections in 26 years. That's an unreasonably high failure rate for something that they have no intention of stopping.

remember in america, the ones who administer lethal injections are as a rule incompetent.

you may think i am being hatefull to executioners, but it’s more complicated then that. if you are medically trained you say an oath to do no harm, doing so anyway will cost you your medical license. so the one who prepares and administers the injection is not medically trained.

also the chemicals are not produced in or by medically licensed pharmaceutical companies. and raw chemicals that are legally allowed to be used are not allowed to be sold to the prisons who do lethal injections. so they have to order from ilreputable sources, who are also incompetent. you may remember the big discussion over some states voting on being allowed to chance what chemicals can be used to kill people.

so it’s not unheard of for people to survive their execution, and why they recover at the hospital after. the executioner is a moraless incompetent who is back yard mixing cut chemicals with an aura of legitimacy as paper thin as his credentials.

I read this book, Reincarnation Blues, where this society rehabs people by hugging them and reminding them of how to be a good person. Seems better than lethal injection

How do you fuck up an execution? It's really not that hard to kill a person. Just ask her.

Straight up medival torture

How TF did they screw that up TWICE?!

Every time the state botches an execution, remember that that same state found them guilty.

(The state is too flawed to have the responsibility, in my opinion. A lot of innocent people are sent to prison. I don't think that she is innocent by any means, but the Innocence Project proves that the state is often not very just)

Personal opinion. I do not agree with the death penalty. Also a personal opinion, if the death penalty is applied, it cannot be barbaric and inhuman. Personal self-awareness. If a loved one was harmed horribly,...... this is why we have a jury of our peers. No person could be unbiased.

The murder sounds like a satanic panic story. She was carrying around a piece of skull afterwards. The boy pled and got life +25 while she fought it and originally got the death by chair. Personally, while I’m morally ok with just being done with certain people, the death penalty in the US is too screwed up to keep. This one definitely was a good candidate for it and needs to not get back into society, however that works.

They should just let her free at this point. She won.

One would have thought that we would have some kind of automated procedure to add a lot more waiting time and re-asses the form of execution if not life sentence based on doctors, not judges, instead but I guess not.

I'm just going to say it, fuck the USA and their medieval injustice system.

She's the 0.1% of germs exposed to lysol

Reverend Mother Pike.

Seems, once again, none of you read beyond the headline. Do any of you actually know what she did to be sentenced to death? There's no fucking way she deserves to be released.

On Jan. 12, 1995, 18-year-old Pike, her boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp, and her friend Shadolla Peterson lured Slemmer to the woods in Knoxville, Tennessee.

There, Pike and Shipp tortured Slemmer and bludgeoned her to death. Pike believed Slemmer was interested in her boyfriend, according to court documents.

"When Slemmer tried to flee, Pike sliced her stomach with the box cutter. ... As Slemmer begged for her life, Pike repeatedly kicked her in the face. Pike then cut Slemmer’s throat as she begged for mercy," the Tennessee Attorney General's Office wrote in court documents.

After Slemmer made one final attempt to escape, Pike smashed the back of her head with a rock, they wrote. Shipp also carved a pentagram into Slemmer's chest, and Pike later showed off a piece of Slemmer's skull to a friend.

Fuck this woman. She doesn't deserve freedom. Finish the sentence humanely if they're going to do it or put her back in prison for life. But do not release this psychopath.

Well the Guillotine never failed