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Christa Pike’s attorneys raise concerns over physician ahead of September execution
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike are raising new concerns.
The concerns are regarding the physician expected to participate in her execution, which is scheduled for September 30.
She is currently the only woman on Tennessee’s death row.
The latest concerns come one week after Tennessee executed Darrell Hines on August 13 and months after the state was unable to complete the May execution of Tony Carruthers.
Stephen Ferrell with Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee released a statement.
Pike’s attorneys allege the physician also participated in the attempted execution of Carruthers and last week’s execution of Hines.
Emergency motion challenging execution of Christa Gail Pike, only woman on Tennessee’s death row, denied
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) – Special Master W. Mark Ward has denied Christa Gail Pike’s emergency motion to reopen a hearing in her challenge to Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol. It’s an update the legal team for the only woman on Tennessee’s death row is calling disappointing.
Pike and her representatives had tried to argue that the physician involved in Tony Carruthers’ botched May execution isn’t fit to play a part in Pike’s, something Ward said isn’t set in stone.
“We are deeply disappointed in the Special Master’s denial of our emergency motion to reopen Christa Pike’s hearing to address the qualifications of the TDOC physician who will participate in any execution of Ms. Pike. The TDOC physician is publicly known to have participated in the botched Tony Carruthers’ execution and Darrell Hines’ execution last week,” Stephen Ferrel of Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee said. “He publicly outed himself as TDOC’s paid execution participant.”
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