Tennessee Plans All-Female Lethal Injection Team at Request of State’s First Woman Being Executed in 200 Years
Tennessee is preparing an all-female team to give a lethal injection to Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday, a request her lawyers made due to decades of sexual abuse and PTSD. The post Tennessee Plans All-Female Lethal Injection Team at Request of State’s First Woman Being Executed in 200 Years appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
TL;DR
- Tennessee plans to use an all-female team for the lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike.
- Pike's lawyers requested this arrangement due to her history of sexual abuse and PTSD.
- Pike is the only woman on Tennessee's death row and is scheduled for execution on Wednesday.
- Her legal team argues for commutation to life without parole, citing jury ignorance of her childhood rape and trauma.
- Pike was convicted of the 1995 murder and mutilation of Colleen Slemmer.
- The victim's mother, May Martinez, opposes Pike's clemency bid.