How legislatures and the courts sabotage the death penalty
State legislators and the courts have turned the death penalty into a grimly farcical process, feeding the cheapest arguments against it.
TL;DR
- State legislators and courts have made the death penalty a farcical process.
- This process feeds arguments against capital punishment.
- The attempted execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee highlights this issue.
- Pike committed a depraved crime: luring, torturing, and murdering Colleen Slemmer.
- Pike kept a fragment of Slemmer's skull as a trophy.