Christa Pike’s Suffering Highlights Inhumanity of Death Penalty

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Christa Pike appears in court in Nashville, Tennessee, April 12, 2012. © 2012 Dipti Vaidya/USA Today Network/Imagn Images via Reuters Today, Christa Pike remains unconscious on a ventilator, and in critical condition after the Tennessee government’s failed execution attempt. Doctors had warned that her medical condition could make the state’s execution method, lethal injection, exceptionally painful and cruel. In fact, it was barbaric. Authorities tried to insert an IV line for an hour on September 30, using at least seven needles in her left…

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