Christa Pike’s botched execution is a reminder of the horror of the death penalty | Moira Donegan

Lethal injection was a way for us to deny the reality of capital punishment. Pike’s experience shows us what it is Christa Pike had asked to be hanged. In the weeks before her botched execution by lethal injection on 30 September, in which she survived two lethal doses of…

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