{"id":79429,"date":"2026-10-01T20:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/christa-pikes-lawyer-says-botched-execution-was-cruel-and-torturous-video\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T20:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:55:05","slug":"christa-pikes-lawyer-says-botched-execution-was-cruel-and-torturous-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/christa-pikes-lawyer-says-botched-execution-was-cruel-and-torturous-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Christa Pike&#8217;s lawyer says botched execution was &#8216;cruel&#8217; and &#8216;torturous&#8217; \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christa Pike is critically ill in a Nashville hospital after surviving two attempts by Tennessee to execute her by lethal injection, her lawyers say. Pike, 50, was sentenced to death in the 1990s for a murder she committed as a teenager, with her lawyers saying she has a blood disorder that made it difficult to establish an intravenous line. Pike\u2019s lawyer Randy Spivey says Tennessee has again demonstrated it is unable to carry out an execution with &#8216;basic human dignity&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/01\/christa-pike-tennessee-governor-executions-year-pause\">Tennessee suspends executions as Christa Pike\u2019s lawyer says failed lethal injection leaves her in critical condition<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/01\/christa-pike-what-we-know-so-far\">Christa Pike: what we know so far about Tennessee woman\u2019s failed execution<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2026\/oct\/01\/christa-pike-botched-execution-lawyer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christa Pike is critically ill in a Nashville hospital after surviving two attempts by Tennessee to execute her by lethal injection, her lawyers say. Pike, 50, was sentenced to death in the 1990s for a murder she committed as a teenager, with her lawyers saying she has a blood disorder that made it difficult to &#8230; <a title=\"Christa Pike&#8217;s lawyer says botched execution was &#8216;cruel&#8217; and &#8216;torturous&#8217; \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/christa-pikes-lawyer-says-botched-execution-was-cruel-and-torturous-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Christa Pike&#8217;s lawyer says botched execution was &#8216;cruel&#8217; and &#8216;torturous&#8217; \u2013 video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}