What Americans think about the death penalty
The BBC spoke to Americans and international tourists in Washington DC about their views on the death penalty following the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee.
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The BBC spoke to Americans and international tourists in Washington DC about their views on the death penalty following the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee.
The convicted US killer who survived a botched execution was walking around her hospital room though she was mentally โfoggyโ, her lawyer said in an interview broadcast on Thursday. Christa Pike, 50, had been considered brain-dead following two lethal doses of the drug pentobarbital last Wednesday that failed to kill her. Doctors had been planning to remove life support on Tuesday when she unexpectedly woke up and started talking, her lawyers have said. โShe is up and walking for the first time...
Christa Pike, sentenced to death for a 1995 murder, awoke "angry โand confused" in a hospital this week with a long recuperation ahead after surviving Tennessee's botched effort to execute her, her lawyers said on Wednesday.
Death row inmate who survived execution by lethal injection is said to be 'angry and confused' about what happened.
The woman who survived a failed execution in a US prison last week is now conscious and speaking, but her prognosis remains unclear, her lawyers said on Tuesday. Christa Pike, 50, who was sentenced to death for a murder she committed when she was a teenager, received two supposedly lethal doses of the drug pentobarbital at a Tennessee prison a week ago.
The death penalty is back in the news after Christa Pike survived two lethal injection attempts in Tennessee - but how widely used is it in the US?
The BBCโs Ione Wells reports from outside the Tennessee hospital where Pike is said to have arrived Wednesday night after surviving two lethal injection attempts.
The high-profile execution of murderer Christa Pike is in disarray after two lethal injections failed to kill her.
The death by lethal injection was scheduled to happen earlier on Wednesday before judges from a lower court paused the execution.
Christa Pike was set to become the first woman executed by Tennessee in more than 200 years.
Lawyers for Pike, who killed a fellow student in 1995, say she should get clemency and would not be sentenced to death if the crime happened today.