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Christa Pike: Lethal Injection Hides State Violence Under ‘Chemical Veneer’ | Corinna Barrett Lain

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“[Lethal injection] allows people to think we’re just putting down a pet, which autopsies show, that is absolutely not what we’re doing.”

Every kind of execution method requires “state violence” to end life, and lethal injection is no different - it just hides that violence under a “chemical veneer”, says criminal justice expert and author Corinna Barrett Lain.

Corinna Barrett Lain was speaking to Roya Nikkah and Rosie Wright, in for Jane Garvey and Fi Glover, on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday-Thursday from 2-4pm.

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17 Comments

@fuzzydunlop7154 47 minutes ago

After reading about the crime Christa committed. I only feel bad for the family of her victim.

@MidniteBarbecue 28 minutes ago

The Long Drop would sort this problem.

@InesAtienza 45 minutes ago

The State of Tennessee is incompetent. Her legal team said Pike has a blood order disease and her concern was expressed to the state the IV may not work. So that could be an explanation. IMO Tennessee is disgusting because they had a prior failed execution this year.

@AgentScully3337 14 minutes ago

Outrageous. Cruelty beyond belief.

@ryanreeves70 41 minutes ago

Cruel & usual is illegal behind curtains

@Krystian_1983 19 minutes ago (edited)

Since when we are allowed to give life and d sentence in a package??.I've experienced temporary brain damage after penicillin while being allergic. Nothing's worse. No phisical pain is a match. You wish for any pain instead. Imagine not being able to move a thought in your head, imagine etc. Permanent emptiness and feeling of your head above eyes filled with cement. Imagine laptop crashing and remaining with frozen screen etc. That's a brain damage experience for you.

@davesingh6168 4 minutes ago (edited)

Christa Pike should be reprieved GODS WILL

@claireconolly8355 19 minutes ago

Or... "we never really studied the female body (in executions 🥴)"

@stayclean777 23 seconds ago

I don't understand if we can put animals down painlessly why can't we do that with people? Doesn't seem like rocket science.

@ErlingArvidsson-k5w 1 hour ago

Execution is murder it can not be humane!

@HUH_777_uno 1 hour ago

It is wrong to take a life; any life!

@dannycampbell1969 35 minutes ago

I have always been opposed to the death penalty, and this lovely woman does a better job of explaining why than I have even to myself. Murderers are sick or bad and we can expect no better from them. But we ought to expect better from ourselves.

@SeraphixSystems 30 minutes ago

SYBAU

@iliestefanmihali2458 34 minutes ago

USA piss primitive country left in the past even Russia doesn't execute people in Europe this primitive method doesn't exist

@truthblitz7 39 minutes ago

Oh please. The prisoner murdered and took a life that will never be returned. Execution is a humane method to impute justice.

@davidwithers7903 15 minutes ago

I've never quite understood what goes on in the mind of people who are morally outraged at one person killing another, but suspend that outrage when it involves murder as some kind of retribution. State sponsored murder is just as repugnant as any other kind of premeditated killing. You're either opposed to it, or you're not, but you can't have it both ways!

@SB-yz7lk 15 minutes ago

She deserved to be incarcerated. She deserved the death penalty...she broke the rules. She pays the price.. the victim here is Colleen Slemmer not Pike..plenty of executions in the bible if you care to take a look..God sanctions it! Genesis 9:6 for starters