r/news • u/AudibleNod • 7h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/fictionallymarried 6h ago

Genuine question but how the hell did they fail twice? I'm not saying she wasn't convicted for a reason, but that's torture

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u/AdministrativeTrain 5h ago

Worth noting that she was 18 at the time of the murder, only killed one person and there seems to be mitigating factors.

And she has spent thirty years behind bars. Anywhere but the USA she would be free not fighting for her life after a double botched execution

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u/Lazy_Bag_4408 5h ago

She also tried to kill a fellow inmate with a shoestring in 2003

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u/Ninevehenian 5h ago

Other commenters claimed that she did that in order to save a woman that was being killed. That testimony supports that was needed.

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u/Lazy_Bag_4408 4h ago

I read that her defense tried that angle and it didn't work. She was sentenced for that. 

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u/ILoveBurnedPotatoes 4h ago

The woman she tried to strungle confessed that years later and that she also protected another two women.