Death penalty: Christa Pike regains consciousness and speaks

Christa Pike, who survived two lethal injections in Tennessee, has regained consciousness and is speaking. Her lawyers announced the news, describing it as an ‘unprecedented’ development. Sentenced to death for the murder of a girl of the same age when was 18, the 50-year-old remains handcuffed and shackled at the ankles despite having suffered serious injuries to her arms caused by the Pentobarbital drips. All this whilst in the United States the debate surrounding the death penalty, due to the actions of Donald Trump, is becoming one of the central issues of the upcoming mid-term elections.

Pike had been admitted to hospital on the evening of 30 September following the failed