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

By Julian Koplin, Lecturer in Bioethics, Monash University; The University of Melbourne

A US woman sentenced to death is now receiving life-saving medical treatment, after surviving a botched execution in Nashville that involved two doses of the drug pentobarbital.

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…

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