Letter from the Editor: When the death penalty doesn’t end in death
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole this week after reading about something I didn’t even know was possible: A woman in Tennessee was given a lethal injection — twice — and didn’t die.
Christa Pike, 50, has been on death row for nearly 30 years for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. Pike was 18 when she and two others lured Slemmer into a wooded area near Knoxville, where she was brutal…