The mother of the teenager murdered by Christa Pike said she believes she is owed an apology following this week’s botched execution in Tennessee.
Wednesday’s execution attempt came 30 years after Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.
Pike, 50, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, is in critical condition at a hospital, unconscious and on a ventilator, after her execution failed despite two lethal injections, her attorneys said Friday.
s so-called modern Americans, we like to believe that we have risen above some of the more, so we think, violent and “barbaric” practices of our ancestors. No facet of our justice system better exemplifies this belief than the ever-evolving definition of “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Top lawyers, doctors and members of the faith community are calling for a moratorium on the US death penalty after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike left the prisoner alive but in critical condition and receiving life-saving medical care.
The recent spate of harrowingly botched executions across US death penalty states reached a new low late on Wednesday when Tennessee’s governor Bill Lee called off the procedure after Pike had been injected with two full syringes of pentobarbital. She is the only person to have survived being administered 5mg of the sedative – a massive dose that under normal circumstances is considered fatal.
She received TWO lethal injections. Should she be granted clemency? I say yes though her crime was horrific.
A Tennessee woman convicted of murder survived two doses of lethal injection on Wednesday night before state officials suspended the execution and had her taken to a hospital for medical care, her lawyers said.
It was the second botched execution in the state this year.
The apparent failure came after dueling court rulings delayed the execution of the woman, Christa Pike, by about nine hours. The state had raced to go ahead with the execution before the day ended and to avoid having to reschedule.
Mo Money Mo Problems? Not for Diddy.
Disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is reportedly living high and large inside the Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey — with access to a cellphone, booze and people catering to his every need, NBC News reported.
While he’s serving a 50-month sentence for prostitution-related offenses, Combs, 56, spends thousands of dollars a month to bring his pampered lifestyle to the Garden State lockup, according to four men who spent time in the same unit as the former hip-hop producer, speaking to the outlet on the condition of anonymity.
It took less than five minutes to install the GPS tracker.
Surveillance footage from a drizzly January night earlier this year reportedly captured the scene as former actress turned private investigator Jennifer Jasey allegedly snuck into a parking garage, found the car she was after, had the device stuck on its undercarriage and slipped back into the elevator.
In the days that followed, Jasey is alleged to have used the tracker to follow the car’s owner, a woman in the process of divorcing an ex-husband she accused of domestic abuse, in an effort to find out where she lived and whether she had a boyfriend.
Anyone who’s serious about working in the crisis management field can tell you the whole story of the Chicago Tylenol murders of 1982, and specifically how Johnson & Johnson (J&J), maker of Tylenol, responded. The case study is the granddaddy of modern crisis management and the way it should be done.
For months, officers had been covertly stationed outside the flat, red-brick plaza on Ordan Drive in Mississauga, just a short drive from Toronto Pearson airport, listening in on the conversations inside.
Investigators believed Unit D of the building was being used as a staging ground for mass amounts of cannabis; a final stop for the drugs to be packed into suitcases affixed with GPS trackers before they were smuggled through Pearson to international destinations such as Greece.
A Canadian man who sold toxic chemicals to people who went on to kill themselves should “rot in hell”, the mother of a British woman who took her own life has said.
Imogen Nunn, known as Immy, died at her Brighton flat in January 2023 aged 25 after buying a substance online from Kenneth Law.
The hunt for the elusive Mr. Big is on. Make that Mr. Bigs.
Police across Toronto and the GTA have task forces with catchy names, like Project Joker, Poacher, Vector and Chickadee. Ontario has poured millions of dollars into boosting enforcement. Hundreds of undercover officers have nabbed hundreds of thieves as young as 11 for all kinds of car theft, from simple driveway jobs to violent home invasions and even more violent carjackings. Special prosecutors have been assigned in an attempt to make charges stick.
The president of the Belleville, Ont., synagogue where shooting erupted between a man and local police Sunday evening says the incident left congregants in shock and the building partly damaged.
“But once we get the building back, we will continue with our services. We will continue with our programming,” Norm Weddum says.
“This is not going to stop us.”
Was it suicide by cop or an act of terror? We can’t know without more info.
And now we may never know, as the Shooter has died.
New York’s Gov. Hochul just signed legislation protecting illegal alien criminals. Meanwhile some people keep mysteriously carrying out machete attacks.
In the old days, when a horse was stolen, they’d round up the thief and hang him. That’s a half-serious, half-joking refrain among victims the Star has spoken to.
Today, much to the consternation of vehicle owners, car thieves are almost never caught, and if they are, the public belief is that they get a slap on the wrist. A Star review of 20 criminal cases that made it to an Ontario courtroom over the past five years shows that is partly true. Since the car theft “crisis” began in 2020, sentences have ranged from no jail time to under two years in most cases, and two to four years in a few cases, particularly for home invasion and carjacking thefts where the person is a repeat offender.
On a day in late January, Toronto detective Antonio D’Onofrio took his place in a Newmarket courtroom.
He was one of hundreds who’d worked on the months-long investigation now known as Project South, a case that began as a probe into an armed home invasion targeting a manager at a Toronto jail but had since ballooned into one of the largest investigations of criminal corruption in the Toronto Police Service’s history.
D’Onofrio, an officer with Toronto police’s professional standards unit, was seeking a justice of the peace’s sign-off to execute a series of raids that would see several of his fellow officers arrested.
With the grace of a major league pitcher, Naz Tokhi’s partner-in-crime plants his feet, transfers his weight back, then explodes forward with a snap of his right arm, firing a carefully selected rock through the glass of a front door. He reaches in, turns the lock, and both men enter the Toronto home, running shoes crunching over shattered glass.
Tokhi’s goal is to obtain the car keys belonging to a $140,000 BMW parked in a Toronto driveway. He will do this 10 times over a span of two months. When he is caught, he will be released on bail, then allegedly go back to stealing cars. The vehicles he and his crew take are worth between $80,000 and $200,000.
Sounds like bad immigration policy.
