1. After the 2 botched attempts at execution of Christa Gail Pike yesterday, she was rushed by ambulance to a hospital for "life-saving treatment".

2. She was held in prison on "death row" for 31 years for a murder committed in 1995. Isn't justice supposed to be "swift"?

3. She was given the death sentence while hundreds of other criminals who have committed worse crimes have received justice terms ranging from parole after a few years to life without possibility of parole.

4. She was to be the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in over 200 years. Women commit murder and other capital crimes by the dozens here (and in other states), and no capital punishment in 200 years?

5. The last botched execution in Tennessee was intended for Tony Von Carruthers on May 21, 2026 who was convicted and put on death row 32 years ago for the kidnapping and murder of 3 people. According to counsel for Mr. Carruthers, execution team members punctured him more than a dozen times while repeatedly attempting to establish an IV line before the execution was stopped. Because of the botched attempted execution, Carruthers was given a 1-year reprieve from execution.

6. Anthony Darrell Dugard Hines was executed in Tennessee back on August 13. He had been on death row for a murder he committed back in 1985, 41 years ago.

7. What's with the multiple decades of time on death row? There should be a federal statute of limitations on death sentences of about 10 years, and if not carried out within that time period, the sentence should be automatically commuted to life without the possibility of parole.

8. There should be federal statutes which set forth uniform sentencing guidelines based on a set of a dozen or so factors (type of crime, intent/motive of crime, weapon(s) used, degree of arosity, number of victims, age of victims, etc.), each with a range of severity from 1 to 10, and graded by the jurors in the punishment phase of a trial. The mathematical values would then translate to punishment terms.

They killed 16,499 people in 2024. They must be very good at it by now.