K. Cronick
“Tennessee
woman Christa Pike has been hospitalized after surviving two lethal injection
doses administered by state officials on Wednesday evening, marking the second
botched execution in the state this year” (Zohang, 2026). This is a headline in
a Truthout reporting about another blotched capital punishment. But the point
is not, really, if the procedure was blotched, or if Ms. Pike was guilty or not.
She was (is) guilty. The problem is whether we want to kill people, too, or
have them killed in our collective names. Unless we reconsider the implications
of lethal criminal justice, we are not very different from the people who used to burn
people at the stake.
Reference:
Sharon
Zhang (2026. October 1). Christa Pike Hospitalized After Surviving 2 Lethal
Injection Doses in Tennessee. Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/christa-pike-hospitalized-after-surviving-2-lethal-injection-doses-in-tennessee/?fbclid=IwY2xjawUrpw9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR7Zfgdr231Gljwl4CdRHPr5kdOSjrYmoRWA1WfJRF7Q0FS-uQbOKQZ-fVE-nA_aem_1qHi4pvdUMWAZ4bOVJfp9g
