Tennessee execution survivor Christa Pike has been released from a Nashville hospital and is back in the maximum-security prison where she was imprisoned for more than three decades before her botched lethal injection last month, her attorneys said. “She is…
After failed execution in Tennessee, more questions remain
Christa Pike remained unconscious and under guard in a Nashville hospital days after a botched lethal injection that led to the resignation of the state’s top corrections official. Two rounds of pentobarbital over a two-hour period could not kill the…
‘Bye bitch’ and other Bible Belt reactions to execution news
My arm jolted in pain as the needle slid into a vein in my right arm. It momentarily interrupted my response to the other nurse on the left of my gurney in a surgical suite at a Christian hospital in…
‘Bring back the electric chair,’ Tennessee GOP candidate urges after botched execution
Christa Pike remained in critical condition in a Tennessee hospital Oct. 1 after surviving two execution attempts and numerous agonizing efforts to insert IVs during her failed lethal injection the day before. Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee responded by announcing…
Tennessee botches another execution
For the second time in four months, Tennessee’s death penalty protocol has failed to work. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, inmate Christa Pike was “alive and loudly snoring after the attempted lethal injection and taken by ambulance from the prison,” her…
Two upcoming executions raise alarms
American death penalty abolitionists are raising concerns about two executions with troubling humanitarian and moral implications. One involves double-murderer Jeffrey Lee, an Alabama Death Row inmate scheduled to die by lethal injection Sept. 17. His jury’s 7-5 vote for life…
Jewish couple asks Tennessee court to end adoption discrimination
A Jewish couple denied foster and adoption training by a state-funded Christian organization urged a Tennessee court to rule their religious rights were violated by a law that funnels taxpayer funds to faith-based child placement providers. Attorneys for Elizabeth and…
Tennessee gubernatorial candidate would ban mosques
With a toothy laugh, Tennessee GOP primary gubernatorial candidate Monty Fritts defends his pledge to ban Muslim mosques and other “pagan” houses of worship. The primary election is August 6, and state representative Fritts faces two opponents: Sen. Marsha Blackburn…
Doctors warn against Tennessee death penalty protocols
Tennessee’s execution protocol is medically unethical and should be revamped before further executions occur, nearly 40 health care professionals said in a letter to Gov. Bill Lee. Like the coalition of faith leaders who asked for a moratorium on executions…
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