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2026-10-02 16:38:55Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Calls for a moratorium on the death penalty in the US have increased following the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee. The procedure was halted after Pike, after being injected with two doses of pentobarbital, was found to be still alive, breathing and having a heartbeat.

Her lawyers have described the procedure as "cruel and torturous" and have asked for her death sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. According to one of the lawyers, several needles were used while trying to find a vein in her arm.

Pike, 50, was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of her classmate, Colleen Slemmer. She would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.

The case has reignited the debate over the safety and humaneness of lethal injection executions. Tennessee had failed in another execution five months earlier, while Alabama has faced similar problems with lethal injections and has since used nitrogen as an alternative method.

Lawyers, doctors and religious leaders have called for a moratorium on executions. Prominent anti-death penalty lawyer Bryan Stevenson said the repeated failures point to serious problems with the way executions are carried out in the US.

The debate comes at a time when executions have been on the rise. Last year marked the highest number of executions in the US in 16 years, with 47 people “put to death” in 12 states.

Meanwhile, public support for the death penalty has declined compared to previous decades.


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