Christa Pike, whose twice-botched execution in Tennessee last month has renewed calls for abolishing the death penalty in the United States, spoke out about her experience on Friday, a month after she had “walked into the execution chamber at Riverbend men’s prison prepared to die.” “I had made my peace,” Pike said in a statement dictated by her legal team. “I had told the people who loved me…
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If that woman’s ordeal isn’t proof that the death penalty is torture and barbaric, I don’t know what is.
Pro-lifers who support the death penalty are experts in double-think. I’ll never understand how they can reconcile the two thoughts. I’m hoping Christa Pike will make them question their opinion. But I’m not holding much hope…