The double standards of a failed execution
Summary
Christa Pike, a 50-year-old woman in Tennessee with a history of mental illness and past abuse, survived a failed execution by lethal injection. Pike was to be the first woman executed in Tennessee since 1820, but the attempt was stopped and she was hospitalized after the procedure did not succeed.Key Facts
- Christa Pike was sentenced to death for a crime she committed at age 18.
- Pike has a background of rape, sexual abuse, and mental illness.
- Her execution in Tennessee failed when lethal drugs did not kill her as planned.
- Pike had requested to be executed by firing squad but was denied.
- The Death Penalty Information Center notes that since 1973, 203 wrongly convicted death row inmates in the U.S. have been exonerated.
- Black people make up 40% of the U.S. death row population, while they are 12% of the overall population.
- The death penalty remains legal in more than half of U.S. states.
- There are concerns about racial and social inequalities in death penalty cases in the U.S.
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