Matt WalshThirty years ago, Christa Pike tortured a young girl to death using, at various points in the lengthy process, a knife, a meat cleaver, and a chunk of asphalt. Last night, finally, after three decades on death row, she was supposed to face the consequences of her crime. There’s no reason why it should have taken this long. Christa Pike could have been, and should have been, killed long ago. She should be fully decomposed in an unmarked grave outside of the prison by now. Once she was convicted of her crime — a crime she definitely committed, and admits to committing — the execution ought to have been carried out within 30 days, if not sooner than that. But our almost comically convoluted system is designed to drag things out as long as possible, giving duly and justly condemned criminals every possible chance to desperately claw their way out of the hole they’ve dug for themselves.
Typically, the condemned criminal gets an automatic state-level appeal. If that appeal fails, they appeal to the state again. If that fails, they appeal to the federal courts. This round of appeals goes through three tiers of courts: the U.S. District Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals, and then the Supreme Court. If all of that fails, they start filing rapid-fire, machine-gun-style motions and petitions for emergency stays and clemency. This whole charade goes on for years and years and years. The average death row inmate gets 18 years to badger every possible court, at every possible level, to bail them out. Christa Pike got 30 years. And she got 30 years, even though there was never any doubt about her guilt. Nobody denies that she did what she was convicted of doing. She doesn’t even deny it. So the appeals process is not giving a potentially innocent person the chance to be saved from an unjust punishment. It’s giving a definitely guilty person the chance to be bailed out by some random judge who, for their own ideological or personal reasons, decides to override the result of a valid and constitutional criminal trial.
And, as we found out last night, sometimes even after all of those appeals are exhausted, and every escape hatch is closed off, the condemned murderer still finds a way out. That appears to be what has happened — at least for now — with Christa Pike. Last night, her execution — finally, after three decades of stalling — began. But it didn’t finish. Around 7:39 p.m. CT, some minutes into the execution process, Pike told her “spiritual adviser” in the execution chamber, “The vein in my arm feels like it’s about to burst.” She was strapped down on a gurney at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, having received (what was supposed to be) a lethal dose of pentobarbital, a nervous system depressant that’s used in lethal injections. There are more potent chemicals we could use, but they’re mostly manufactured in Europe, which won’t export the drugs to the United States for use in executions. They’ve spent 15 years limiting our supply of execution drugs, including the ones Tennessee is using.
Within about two minutes, reporters in the observation room reported that Pike was kicking her feet nonstop. At 7:45, she yawned very loudly and began snoring. She lifted her head up briefly at 7:54, and by 8:03, the snoring was very loud. Her body flexed at 8:05, and she gasped for air. Shortly afterwards, the curtain was drawn, and the reporters were told to leave the observation room — without being told whether Pike had been pronounced dead or not.
As reporters spoke at a press conference outside the prison, ambulances arrived, apparently to see if they could save her life — even though the whole point of the execution, of course, was to kill her. This is one of the most bizarre and inexplicable scenes you will ever see. And one of the things that makes it so bizarre is that all of these people are supposedly non-partisan, unbiased reporters — and all of them are clearly activists who oppose the death penalty. They don’t even hide it. Watch:
🚨 BREAKING: FIRST MEDIA WITNESSES SPEAK AFTER CHRISTA PIKE’S EXECUTION — AND THEY STILL DON’T KNOW IF SHE’S DEAD
This video clip was literally just recorded live. More coming.
Pike was given the lethal-injection drugs, but when these witnesses came out to speak, they said they… pic.twitter.com/LI70FCoDPU
— Lindsay 🇺🇸 (@TheLinzerShow) October 1, 2026
Where’s a Canadian doctor when you need one? They’d take care of this problem very quickly. All we have to do is tell them that Christa Pike is depressed, or maybe has diabetes. They’d put her in a body bag in about five minutes.
Actually — maybe they’d have some difficulty too. Canadian MAID doctors use a drug called propofol when they’re killing old people to harvest their organs. And we can’t use propofol because Europe won’t ship the drug to us. Think of how bizarre this is — because Europeans are so allegedly civilized, they’re leaving us with no choice except to use a drug that maximizes the likelihood of a prolonged, agonizing death. You can argue that it’s poetic in a way, since Pike tortured her victim, and now she’s being tortured. But it’s certainly preventable. There’s no arguing that.
Part of the problem here is that, when we use the weak drugs that we do have, there’s apparently no protocol for what to do when the criminal remains alive after two doses. This is a medical reporter who witnessed the botched execution. We’ll listen to what she has to say, but the obvious caveat is that (as with all those other reporters), she’s probably ideologically opposed to the death penalty, so keep that in mind. Watch:
🚨 OMG- MEDIA WITNESS: AMBULANCE LEFT CHRISTA PIKE’S EXECUTION WITH SIRENS ON — “WE CAN PRESUME THERE WAS SOMEBODY ALIVE IN THAT, BUT WE DON’T KNOW”
“This is pretty unprecedented. None of it should have happened, and it wasn’t planned for. It made it really hard for the prison… pic.twitter.com/3d41JumZaN
— Lindsay 🇺🇸 (@TheLinzerShow) October 1, 2026
This is all quite ironic, since when Pike was explaining why it took so long for her to murder the innocent girl she killed, she stated, “The b*tch wouldn’t die.” Now it’s Pike who refuses to die.
As things currently stand, Pike is apparently still not dead; she’s in the hospital receiving medical treatment. The whole thing has become a kind of morbid farce. The state tried to kill her. Now they’re nursing her back to life. We have no idea if she’s in a vegetative state or not. And of course, her defense team is already arguing that this whole situation is “cruel and unusual” as a way of suspending her death sentence. The governor, Bill Lee, has just suspended executions in the state for the rest of the year, saying there needs to be a “comprehensive, third-party review to determine exactly what occurred.”
Of course, you don’t need a “comprehensive investigation” to execute this woman. Other than a shovel, all you need is a gun and a few bullets. There’s no reason why any execution ever needs to be “botched.” There shouldn’t be, and doesn’t need to be, any such thing as an execution that doesn’t work. You’re not solving a math equation. This isn’t a riddle. There are several quick, easy, simple, 100% effective methods. Methods that cannot fail, unless the condemned criminal is Superman. But as of right now, only five states have the firing squad — Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah. Idaho actually made the firing squad their primary execution method earlier this summer after a botched lethal injection back in 2024. That would solve the problem overnight. Firing squads are, again, 100% effective. Or, alternatively, a short rope and a slightly longer trip off of a raised platform could do the trick. That’s a reliable, tried-and-true method that doesn’t rely on complicated cocktails and chemistry experiments.
In this case, remarkably enough, Pike actually requested death by hanging. In fact, she wanted an all-female execution squad to hang her. I’m not making that up. This is from the New York Post.
In the event that she is not spared from execution, Pike has made a special request. She wants an all-female execution squad to carry out the procedure in front of witnesses, including the family of her victim. The reason, her lawyers say, is that she has post-traumatic stress disorder from the widely documented abuse she suffered at the hands of men as a young girl, including when she was just two years old. They also say her death by lethal injection will be ‘prolonged and agonizing’ because she has a rare blood disorder that could make finding a vein more difficult and affect the way she reacts to the drug. So afraid is Pike of the execution being carried out by lethal injection that she took the state to court in August to ask that she be hanged instead.
The judge rejected her motion to be hanged, since the state of Tennessee claimed they lack the equipment to hang her. Again, this is a farce. The state intentionally makes it far more complicated than it needs to be. How can they lack the equipment to hang someone? I could run to Home Depot and be back with all of the necessary equipment in 45 minutes. In fact, I won’t even make them reimburse me for the cost. It will be a charitable donation to a worthy cause. But, again, the process is made deliberately convoluted.
In this case, you’d be forgiven for being conspiratorial about it. The Christa Pike case attracted national attention. She had become the latest cause celebrated on the Left and among feminists. A great deal was made of the fact that she is a female prisoner facing execution — as though it’s somehow inherently problematic to execute a female murderer as opposed to a male murderer. And in the midst of all of this hysteria, Christa Pike winds up somehow surviving multiple doses of lethal injection, and is now apparently recovering in a hospital. You might wonder whether it was botched on purpose. That’s not an unreasonable possibility to consider. Botched executions do happen — in fact, in fairness, the planning for this execution involved the same doctor — a guy named Mark Fowler — who participated in a failed injection earlier this year.
Tony Carruthers
Under Fowler’s guidance, the execution team couldn’t establish IV access to the veins of a murderer named Tony Carruthers, taking over an hour. Now it’s happened again, potentially with Fowler overseeing an all-female team. Lethal injection fails about 7% of the time, but the odds of it going wrong twice are less than one half of one percent. It’s certainly possible they missed a vein or something once again. But, to my knowledge, Christa Pike is now the first person in recorded history to survive an execution after both doses of the lethal injection were fully administered. She survived both Plan A and Plan B. They didn’t even have a protocol in place for what to do after that, because nobody has ever made it past Plan B. So what are the chances that something this unprecedented just happened to occur during one of the most high-profile executions of the century, and the first female to be executed in Tennessee in 200 years just so happens to be the one to survive the execution in a manner that so far can’t even be explained? You are not crazy if you’re suspicious. In fact, consider me extremely suspicious. Female jurors just sabotaged a jury to keep Lindsay Clancy out of jail. Did someone sabotage a lethal injection to keep a female murderer out of the coffin? That is a viable possibility. Until evidence conclusively proves otherwise.
Take a look at the crowds of women who have been gathering outside the prison in recent days to show support for Pike, a Satan worshipper who — as I mentioned, and we’ll discuss in more detail in a moment — brutally tortured and carved up an innocent woman. It’s very similar to what we saw during the Lindsay Clancy trial. Watch:
Christa Pike tortured her classmate to death and kept the victim’s skull as a “souvenir”
Outside the prison today: pic.twitter.com/HiNHBOsDNG
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 1, 2026
Remember when the excuse for this kind of behavior was “postpartum depression”? Feminists said they were defending Lindsay Clancy because she suffered from a mental illness that only affects women, and which causes a random voice to appear in their heads, issuing orders that (for some unknown reason) they cannot possibly refuse. Postpartum depression does not affect women’s ability to carefully plan their brutal homicides, but it does mean that we can’t hold them responsible for their actions.
And now, less than a month later, we have the same crowds gathering to defend a female murderer — and no one’s talking about postpartum psychosis. So what’s the excuse this time? Why should we have any sympathy for her at all? Well, the leftists rallying to her defense can’t think of any reason, other than the fact that she’s a woman. Countless headlines have been published highlighting this fact. Every article mentions it as though it’s significant on its own. Christa Pike isn’t just a murderer set to be executed. She’s a woman set to be executed. And this, in and of itself, is supposed to make the execution somehow more brutal, or more tragic, or fundamentally worse in some way. This is the argument, though it can’t be explained or defended by the people making it. After all, if men and women are exactly equal, then there’s nothing notable at all about executing a woman as opposed to a man.
That should especially be the case here, given the details of the case. The more you dig into it, the more disturbing it is. So let’s start with the factual background. I gave you the one-sentence summary of this woman’s crimes. But you need the full story to truly appreciate what a depraved, wicked monster this woman is. When she was 18 years old, Christa Pike was a student at the Job Corps Center in Knoxville, which was basically a government-funded vocational school that was supposed to help troubled kids get a job (although, as you can imagine, like all government programs, the job center was poorly managed and quickly became a blight on the community with constant criminal activity). Out of the blue, on January 11, 1995, Pike told a friend that she intended to murder another student named Colleen Slemmer, simply because she “had just felt mean that day.” The next day, on January 12, around 8 p.m., Pike, along with her boyfriend, were spotted walking away from the jobs center along with Slemmer and another student. A little over two hours later, a witness saw the group return to the jobs center — without Slemmer.
Christa Pike
It didn’t take long for Pike to implicate herself in Slemmer’s disappearance. That night, Pike went to a friend’s room and confessed to killing Slemmer, adding that she had “brought back a piece of the victim’s skull as a souvenir” (I’m quoting the Supreme Court of Tennessee, from their review of the case). Pike then showed her friend the piece of skull, and explained that she had “cut the victim’s throat six times, beaten her, and thrown asphalt at the victim’s head.” Pike went on to state that the victim had begged her attackers to stop beating her, but they kept throwing asphalt at her. At one point, Pike confessed that “a meat cleaver had been used to cut the victim’s back, and a box cutter had been used to cut her throat. Finally, Pike said that a pentagram had been carved onto the victim’s forehead and chest.” From the court documents:
Pike was dancing in a circle, smiling, and singing “la, la, la” while she related these details about the murder. When [her friend] saw Pike at breakfast the next morning she asked Pike what she had done with the piece of the victim’s skull. Pike replied that it was in her pocket and then said, “And, yes, I’m eating breakfast with it.” During a class later that morning, Pike made a similar statement to another Job Corps student. Pike pointed to brown spots on her shoes and said, ‘that ain’t mud on my shoes, that’s blood.’ Pike then pulled a napkin from her pocket and showed [another student] a piece of bone which Pike said was a piece of Slemmer’s skull. Pike also told [the student] that she had slashed Slemmer’s throat six times and had beaten Slemmer in the head with a rock. Pike told [the student] that the victim’s blood and brains had been pouring out and that she had picked up the piece of skull when she left the scene.
You might think, hearing this, that someone would’ve alerted the authorities. Two students independently heard Pike confessing to the brutal murder of another student who went missing. And none of these people decided to call 9-1-1. Instead, Slemmer’s body remained undiscovered until a member of the University of Tennessee Grounds Department stumbled on the corpse the next morning. The body was so badly mangled that, at first, the custodian thought he was looking at a dead animal. Then he saw the clothing, and he realized what had happened.
When investigators questioned Pike, she confessed to the murder at great length. She claimed that Slemmer had been “trying to get [her] boyfriend” and had been “running her mouth” everywhere. She told the investigator that she had invited Slemmer to walk together to a Blockbuster store, then told her about a hidden stash of marijuana in the park. Then Pike (and her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp) ambushed Slemmer when they arrived at a steam plant on the UT campus, hitting her repeatedly as she screamed, “Why are you doing this to me?” The attack lasted between 30 minutes and an hour, during which the two attackers forced Slemmer to remove her clothing (including her underwear) and also tied a rag around her mouth to prevent her from talking. They slit Slemmer’s throat several times, and stabbed her so many times that the medical examiner couldn’t even identify all of the wounds on her body. They could only identify Slemmer through dental records. It was a protracted, gruesome murder. And there was evidence, according to the medical examiner, that Slemmer was alive when most of her injuries were inflicted.
Two days later, at the police station, both Pike and her boyfriend were photographed wearing pentagram necklaces, which made sense, because they both claimed to be devil worshippers. At trial, a defense witness (a clinical psychologist) testified that Pike was “extremely bright,” with an IQ around the 77th percentile — which, not to be pedantic, is slightly above average intelligence, hardly qualifying as extremely bright. But the point is that she was not mentally retarded or brain damaged or insane. The psychologist added that Pike had “severe borderline personality disorder” and “signs of marijuana dependence,” along with impulse control issues. But that’s about it. After the jury returned a guilty verdict, the defense called Pike’s aunt, who described her as a “pathological liar.” There was a sob story too — the jury was told that “Pike’s mother’s home was very dirty” and “Pike’s mother set no rules for her.” Oh, and Pike’s father said he kicked her out of the house twice, following an allegation that she had sexually assaulted his young daughter — which is obviously a pretty good reason to kick her out of the house.
All this to say, Christa Pike clearly deserved the death sentence she received. Specifically, in 1996, the jury sentenced Pike to “death by electrocution” due to the aggravating circumstances, including the fact that she tortured her victim. And Christa Pike herself, in her own words, accepted this punishment. Watch:
Christa Pike in her own words. Any sympathy today should be for the victim’s family who have endured over 30 years of torment, waiting for this day to come. pic.twitter.com/8p76utppbb
— Andrew McBride (@andrewmcb) September 30, 2026
This is perhaps the most straightforward death penalty case imaginable: If this Satanist doesn’t deserve the death penalty, then no one does. That’s why, although Pike appealed her conviction and sentence multiple times, the courts rejected every single one of her appeals. And rejecting the appeals would have been even easier, considering that even being sent to prison did not stop Christa Pike’s murderous reign of terror. Years after she was consigned to death row, she was charged with attempting to strangle a fellow inmate to death. And years after that, she was caught trying to orchestrate an escape from prison. Suffice it to say, this woman is not repentant. She is a cold-blooded, unrepentant killer.
But on Wednesday morning, with less than an hour to go until her execution, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling, issued a stay of execution. This stay was quickly overturned by the Supreme Court (with all the dumb DEI liberal judges dissenting), but we still need to address the question: How could the judges have issued this stay in the first place?
Let’s start by taking a look at the two judges who ruled in favor of a stay of execution. Here’s Judge Karen Nelson Moore.
She’s a Clinton-appointed leftist who went to Harvard. She looks exactly how you’d expect. And here’s Judge Jane Stranch. She’s a Vanderbilt grad who was appointed by Obama. Again, exactly what you’d expect.
And here’s the lone dissenting judge, who ruled in favor of execution.
This is Judge Richard Griffin. He’s a Bush appointee and perhaps more notably, he’s a man. Meanwhile, the female judges apparently have sympathy for the female murderer. This is what our “justice system” has become. It’s more of the demographic tribalism that has infected our courts for years, which we have documented on this show at great length. If you’re a woman, then chances are high that female judges (and jurors) are going to be on your side. They’re going to invent some absurd pretext to bail you out. The same principle applies when it comes to ethnicity and political affiliation, as we all know. Democrat judges help out Democrat defendants. Black judges help black defendants, Indian judges help Indian defendants, Mexican judges help Mexican defendants, Chinese judges help Chinese defendants (as we saw in San Francisco recently, when a judge let the old woman get away with killing an entire family).
But things get even worse, in this case, when you look at the “reasoning” these female judges used, if you can even call it that. After 30 years of appeals, they’re claiming that the following statement, which was made by prosecutors in court during a recent hearing, is grounds for a stay of execution. Here’s the statement from the prosecutor.
Now, as for issue two which deals with Ms. Pike’s cited history of sexual assault and PTSD. The State does not dispute the terrible things that Ms. Pike suffered. I think everybody in this courtroom wishes that those things had never happened to Ms. Pike. I think we all wish that we were not here today and that she was not on death row. Certainly none of us take any pleasure in this. And so it’s certainly not the State’s intention to try to minimize the suffering that Ms. Pike has experienced. But that’s not the issue before the Court.
That’s it. Because prosecutors stated that they take Pike at her word, when she talks about these horrible things that supposedly happened to her, the female judges decided that the execution needs to be called off. This is something they’d almost certainly not do if Pike were a man. You don’t see this kind of logic often being applied to male defendants. But because she’s a woman, they’re deeply concerned about her “PTSD.”
In particular, they’re upset about the fact that, previously, the prosecutors had suggested that Pike was probably fabricating the details of her sob story. But many years later, in a hearing, a prosecutor apparently gave her the benefit of the doubt — because, as he correctly pointed out, it doesn’t matter whether her sob story is true or not. It shouldn’t affect her sentence in any way. Once you start carving pentagrams into people’s chests, and giggling with delight at the thought of butchering an innocent woman, your personal problems are irrelevant.
The only reason these female judges issued this ruling is that they’re leftists, and for many years now, leftist judges have been on a campaign to eliminate the death penalty. Stephen Breyer, the former Supreme Court justice, was one of the pioneers of this strategy. This is from his opinion in the case Knight v. Florida from 1999:
A growing number of courts outside the United States — courts that accept or assume the lawfulness of the death penalty — have held that lengthy delay in administering a lawful death penalty renders ultimate execution inhuman, degrading, or unusually cruel. In Pratt v. Attorney General of Jamaica, for example, the Privy Council considered whether Jamaica lawfully could execute two prisoners held for 14 years after sentencing.
So to translate that, he’s citing courts in Jamaica for their rulings on the death penalty. He’s giving Jamaican courts — as well as courts in Zimbabwe, the European Court of Human Rights, and the United Nations — influence over the death penalty in the United States. And specifically, he’s saying that if the death penalty takes a long time to administer, then it’s unconstitutional based on what Jamaican courts are doing. Are you following this? Liberals want to string out death penalty cases as long as possible, by guaranteeing as many appeals as they can. And then, when those appeals inevitably take a long time, they say you can’t execute the criminal, because he’s had to wait too long, and it’s cruel to leave someone on death row for so long. This is circular reasoning. And he’s citing Jamaican law — not the Constitution of the United States — to justify it. As Clarence Thomas put it, in response to Breyer’s opinion:
I am unaware of any support in the American constitutional tradition or in this Court’s precedent for the proposition that a defendant can avail himself of appellate … procedures and then complain when his execution is delayed. Indeed, were there any such support in our own jurisprudence, it would be unnecessary for proponents of the claim to rely on the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe, the Supreme Court of India, or the Privy Council.
As Thomas and Scalia later wrote, the liberals on the Supreme Court were on a “ceaseless quest to end the death penalty through undemocratic means.” They were “replacing judgments of the People with [the Court’s] own standards of decency.”
To this day, you have to admit — it’s an effective strategy. It’s how the Left is waging their propaganda campaign against the death penalty. In the case of Pike’s appeal, as the male judge pointed out, it’s obscene for this woman’s lawyers (who are taxpayer-funded, by the way) to wait until the last possible moment to file. They’ve already filed so many other appeals, all of which have been rejected. And under our law, you don’t get to file an infinite number of appeals. Unless there are some important new facts — like new DNA evidence or something — then you’re out of luck. A prosecutor’s statement, where he says he feels bad about some alleged aspect of the killer’s life, is not “new evidence.” But these female judges simply ignored the law, and postponed the execution, because they felt bad for a fellow member of the ya-ya sisterhood. The fact she’s a Satanic murderer, evidently, does not matter to them. Nor does it matter to the mob of women who gathered outside the prison, to show their support for Pike.
We’re at the point where, every other day, a woman receives an outpouring of public support for engaging in an unspeakably depraved act — one which, at any other point in human history, would’ve led to swift justice (probably in the form of a witch trial). And for that reason, it’s well past time that we talked about the scourge of female privilege in this country, which is now completely out of control. And almost no one is talking about it, even though it’s thrust in our faces every day. In fact, they’re not even trying to hide it anymore. Feminists — who once pretended to believe in the impossible ideal of “equality” among the sexes — are now declaring that, in reality, women are incapable of being held responsible for any of their actions, in any context, no matter how heinous their behavior may be. They sound exactly like cartoon misogynists, in other words. And while, in an ideal world, no one would have to take these people seriously, the fact remains that feminists are very well-represented in the government (and on juries). As a result, it’s become extremely difficult to punish women for the crimes they commit.
First, we saw nine female jurors refuse to convict Lindsay Clancy, even though it was very clear that she brutally killed her own children. To protect the right of women to slaughter their kids at will, the mob went after the lone holdout on the jury — a black guy who actually cared about the evidence and the law. Then we saw the Democratic Party and every national media outlet come out in defense of a female Cornell student who told the DA in a written statement that she had voluntarily engaged in an orgy at a frat house, only to change her story two years later. Instead of assigning any blame to this woman because of her own conduct, the mob turned its attention toward seven male Cornell students — accusing them of “drugging” and assaulting the woman, even though in her statement she said that never happened. And now feminists are defending a Satanic murderer who killed an innocent girl because she felt like it.
As mentioned, part of the reason they’re defending Christa Pike is that she was supposed to be the first female death-row inmate executed in the state of Tennessee in more than 200 years — which gives you a sense of how difficult it is to actually punish women in our judicial system. It’s also a window into, again, the demographic tribalism that has taken hold in this country. Feminists recognize the possibility that a woman might finally be held accountable for her actions, and they immediately rally to her defense. It’s like watching the BLM thugs mobilize whenever a black criminal stabs a cop, or tries to pass a fake check, or burns down a building.
In this case, Pike herself has alluded to this kind of mob mentality. A few days ago, Pike told a newspaper in the United Kingdom, “I feel a kinship with Lindsay [Clancy]. We are both females who got into trouble because of uniquely female issues.”
Yes, they both got in trouble due to “uniquely female issues.” What are those “uniquely female issues?” Well, they’re both murderers, and they’re both female. That’s about it. The idea that only women get depressed after having children, or that only women can be abused when they’re young, is completely absurd and obviously false. But millions of women have brainwashed themselves into believing that nonsense, as a way of avoiding all accountability for their actions.
The case of Christa Pike is not complicated. She butchered a girl, tortured her in a remote location, and kept a piece of her skull as a trophy. And that wasn’t even the last person she would try to kill. Her female sex is the only thing that ever made her execution “controversial.” Executions are rare in this country — much rarer than they should be — but there are still around 20 or 30 per year. Last year, there were nearly 50 executions carried out. You don’t hear about most of them. Why is that? Because activists are extremely selective about the criminals they rally around. Prior to this, the most recent high-profile execution that attracted mass protests and petitions was a guy named Marcellus Williams in 2024. As you might have guessed from the name, or might remember if you followed the news, Williams was black. That was, very explicitly, one of the primary factors that, for the activists, made the execution somehow problematic. The same thing applies now for Christa Pike, because of her sex. But the correct view on all of this is that evil people should face the just consequences of their actions. It doesn’t matter what demographic cohort they belong to. It doesn’t matter if they’re a man or woman, white or black. And it doesn’t matter if they have a sob story, or were abused as a child, or had postpartum depression, or are suffering from anxiety, or ADHD, or restless leg syndrome. Justice means giving everyone what they are due. And if you brutalize and kill the innocent, you are due the ultimate punishment. You have forfeited your right to continue existing.
Justice is not a negotiable aspect of civilized society. At a civilizational level, and even at a personal level, it is a need — like food and water and shelter. Our ancestors understood this basic reality — just as they understood many other basic realities — better than we do. That’s why they punished evil swiftly and violently, and with finality. We have become squeamish about it. That’s why Lindsay Clancy isn’t serving life in prison right now. And it’s why Christa Pike apparently isn’t dead, even after being executed. If we want to restore justice to our society — which we must — we’re going to have to get over that squeamishness. We’re going to have to punish evil people. It’s what they deserve. And, more importantly, it’s what their victims deserve too.
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