Christa Pike’s botched execution exposes the deep contradictions of a ‘painless’ state‑imposed death

Christa Pike, now 50, was convicted for the 1995 murder of a classmate, committed alongside her boyfriend when she was aged 18. She was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.

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