Christa Pike’s botched lethal injection comes as US ‘reconsiders’ death penalty: expert | ABC NEWS
Professor Austin Sarat says public support for the death penalty in the United States is declining, as are the rates of executions and death sentences being imposed.
He says whether Christa Pike — who survived a leath injection — is resentenced to death is a decision for the governor of Tennessee, rather than the courts.
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