Christa Pike seeks firing squad, not lethal injection: Inside US executions
Summary
Tennessee plans to execute Christa Pike, a woman convicted of a 1995 murder, by lethal injection despite her request for a firing squad. Pike’s lawyers argue that lethal injection could cause severe trauma and have requested clemency, which the governor has denied.Key Facts
- Christa Pike was convicted of torturing and killing a classmate in 1995 when she was 18 years old.
- Pike will be the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years.
- She has requested to be executed by an all-female firing squad instead of lethal injection.
- Her lawyers say lethal injection could trigger flashbacks due to her past childhood abuse and trauma.
- Pike also suffers from bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Tennessee law allows some death row inmates to choose the electric chair, but not the firing squad.
- Pike’s clemency request to change her sentence to life without parole was denied by Governor Bill Lee.
- Experts say she is the only modern Tennessee inmate sentenced to death for a crime committed as a teenager.
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