Christa Pike: the execution of the death row inmate fails in the United States

Her name is Christa Pike, she is now 50 years old, and she was preparing to die, after three decades spent on death row, for a crime committed when she was 18. Her lawyers had exhausted all avenues to have her mental illness and the abuse suffered in her childhood recognized, with the hope of having this execution canceled.

Finally, this Wednesday, September 30, after being injected with two doses of pentobarbital, one at 7:27 p.m., the other at 8:26 p.m., Pike did not succumb. Witnesses to the execution, interviewed by the American media, said that the condemned woman continued to breathe and even snored after the injections. The executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, Robin M. Maher, said the case was “singular and unprecedented.”

The fifty-year-old was taken to a hospital. “We were not informed of his condition,” his lawyers said. In a press release, they reported “difficulty of access to veins, veins…