October 02, 2026
The All Amazon Death Squad
Timothy Birdnow
Never send a woman to do a man's job...
Betsy from Pike is the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in ages and they give her an all-female team to carry out sentence. Given how it's always women who are protesting executions, and marrying serial killers and the like, one has to wonder if the Rasputin-like Pike, who survived not one but TWO lethal injections, wasn't saved by her own execution squad.
Certainly this smells to high heaven.
Pike was convicted and placed on death row for the torture and brutal slaying of a romantic rival, a girl whom Pike suspected of pursuing her boyfriend. She was sentenced to death, lost all her appeals, and sent for lethal injection. Somebody screwed it up. She's still alive after two doses of the euthanizing agent.
This chick squad needs to be brought in and grilled, and the needles inspected (I'm sure they could find enough left of the drug to see what was in those needles; I suspect someone purposely watered them down.)
Anyway Tennessee has death by firing squad and that is a more sure way to do this. Bullets can't be watered down. If all the firing squad misses then we have a problem.
Let's hope they have some men who know how to use those guns on the line.
BTW the Angel of Death, who passed over the Israelites in Egypt, was named Azrael. He was a rather fearsome angel, who was known to do his job with zero pity. Human executioners are not so good at their job as Azrael, but men will at least do it. Women are nurturers by nature and don't want to take a life. It's ridiculous we put women in this role.
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Way I heard it, there are two possibilities for Pike's "lack of death:" first is that her veins were too small for the needles, second is that the chemicals that were supposed to kill her were outdated. If it was the second, it ought not to be too difficult to determine that. She did say she was experiencing pain from the chemicals, so I think the "too small veins" theory is suspect.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at October 02, 2026 11:47 PM (1KBQw)
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Hmm...interesting. But if her veins were too small the person administering it would have had trouble finding them, and we've actually seen that before in executions. I remember one guy who got mad "for Gods sake will you find a vein already" he complained as they spent half an hour trying to find a way to kill the man. I haven't heard about that here so I am guessing this theory is wrong.
So it was a problem with the substance. That does fuel the conspiracy theory. I doubt TWO batches would fail even if they were out of date (not even sure there are dates on potassium, which is generally what is used for executions).
Somebody really needs to get to the bottom of this. Maybe we need to bring back old sparky? A rope is effective and even cheaper.
So it was a problem with the substance. That does fuel the conspiracy theory. I doubt TWO batches would fail even if they were out of date (not even sure there are dates on potassium, which is generally what is used for executions).
Somebody really needs to get to the bottom of this. Maybe we need to bring back old sparky? A rope is effective and even cheaper.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at October 03, 2026 08:46 AM (oflqW)
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