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The botched execution of Christa Pike by the state of Tennessee on Sept 30 is unlikely to spark a broad move to restrain the use of lethal injection as a means of carrying out the death penalty in the United States, according to capital punishment researcher Serene Singh.

The state authorities said they had suspended all executions for the remainder of this year as an investigation had been launched to determine what went wrong.

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00:22I mean definitely we could hear her it was more than an hour that we were in there in this
00:26whole
00:26process we could hear like a little crying and whimpering at times but when the curtains finally
00:31opened yeah she said her last words at one point at 734 she said my arm feels like it's about
00:37to
00:37burst open then she smiles really big botched executions are surprisingly not that rare
00:52there's a large body of research and evidence that goes into the depths of how botched executions
00:59happen in various different types of execution methods oftentimes it is botched executions that
01:05enable and empower the courts to determine that this execution method must be replaced by the next
01:11execution method and then we do it again but I will say in in Pike's case you know my understanding
01:18is
01:18that she's the only known person to have survived a complete execution attempt in the United States
01:24you know Krista has a long documented history as a survivor she has survived multiple childhood rapes
01:32and she has lifelong scars as a result of them lifelong challenges both medically speaking that
01:38have been attested to and are well evidenced in her court filings however you know at the time of her
01:43sentencing this wasn't brought up and so you can already look to the time of the sentencing when we
01:49decide as a society that this is an individual that should be condemned to death but could be the case
01:54that for a little bit of time we see less lethal injection as a required protocol for a state I
02:01do
02:01imagine that that can happen especially as a result of the scrutiny that is being received by Tennessee
02:06rightfully so but I don't imagine that lethal injection is going to be off the books I think we are
02:11at a
02:11point in time where our society is starting to wonder especially in light of this botched execution
02:16to what degree and to what extent do we think that the capital punishment system is working
02:21in this country and if it is working for whom and at what cost
02:31I can be angry at Krista for what she did to Colleen because Colleen did not deserve that
02:38Colleen's mother may she deserved to watch her daughter grow up she deserved if her daughter got
02:45married to walk her down the aisle she deserved to spend time with grandkids she deserved all of
02:50that Colleen deserved those chances too Krista took that from them I am angry at Krista for that
02:57but also Krista had a lot taken from her too I question at what point are we going to acknowledge
03:04that hurt people hurt people accountability yes but to what degree it's a gray area the death penalty
03:12can't be undone we can't reverse it we can't overrule it we can't vacate it once it's done it's done
03:18the resources that are poured into state sanctioned killings can be repurposed in a better way let's
03:25improve the systems that we have let's create better systems you know for victims families instead of
03:32spending the millions and millions of dollars that we spend on an execution let's pour that into
03:39victim services
03:44I do not have an explanation for what happened between Monday night and Tuesday morning but what
03:53we do know is that Krista has a long road to recovery she has a blood clot in one of
03:59her arms
03:59she has pneumonia she is not able to swallow yet so she is not eaten she cannot move either of
04:07her arms
04:07both of her arms and hands are tremendously swollen and we do not know what if any function she will
04:15regain
04:16in her arms Krista is a survivor and we remain hopeful all of this was foreseeable and foreseen what
04:25happened to Krista is exactly what the state was warned would happen and there are so many questions
04:31that need to be answered not by Krista but by the state of Tennessee we continue to ask Governor Lee
04:37to
04:38commute Krista's death sentence after all we have seen and all that we still do not know it is
04:44unimaginable that the state would try to execute her again
04:55to be answered truly a significant topic thatráin was averaged under and over the view of the
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