Appeals court pauses Christa Pike execution an hour before scheduled injection
Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?
Chris Geidner91I wrote at Law Dork more about why this SCOTUS order is so bad. www.lawdork.com/p/the-big-pr...
Dara Farr 🏳️⚧️54The Supreme Court, much like AI, doesn't understand that death is an irreversible process.
scikeefe.bsky.social32Expand the fucking court. Enough of this
Jerry Threet19Its this kind of rhetorical games, a fundamental feature of this SCOTUS majority, that undermine both public confidence in the Court and in the rule of law.
Betty Perry-Fingal18Devout Catholics. The Pope needs to educate them on the Church's longstanding position on the death penalty.
trello18The fact that a prisoner can go through such a concentrated period of finding out whether the government is going to kill them or not, down to learning that your life is going to end in just sixty minutes, in the United States feels like some form of cruel and unusual punishment
My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
Don Elkay13We are the shithole country Trump warned us about.
Bearcats Grad6SCOTUS judges should be forced to watch every minute of an execution they approve.
Ehren Battermann4Horrifying & wildly unethical. It absolutely ought to be considered cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.
Rich Sanfilippo 1If one innocent person can be executed unjustly, then that is one too many; the death penalty should be abolished.
WASHINGTON (AP) — US Supreme Court allows Tennessee execution of Christa Gail Pike to go forward, overturning a last-minute stay.
Cats of Yore91I can't believe the death penalty still exists at all in 2026. Over 70% of the countries in the world have abolished it yet here we are.
Rebecca Fachner52Ours is a monstrous system
“CALL ME MISSUS…Thee Well Read Bonnet” 🖕🏽🤷🏽♀️12The punitive nature of the majority should be very concerning to all of us. This has to be genetic and should be studied, what are they always so afraid of? This doesn’t accomplish a damn thing.
Eric B11My thoughts are with the young lady who was gutted with a box knife while alive and had a piece of her skull shown to others as a piece of pride.
jillnaustin 🔥🔥🔥7i am not going out on a limb to defend her. what she did to that poor girl is horrific. i don't like the death penalty but people seem to have forgotten about the girl christa tortured and murdered.
AlyceMiller7State killing as retribution for killing is morally wrong. US joins countries like Iran, China, Yemen, Iraq and Saudi Arabia with death penalty.
Calvinball Congress199our country is a death cult.
daniel sieradski156this court loves killing democracy and people
Read Settlers da Silva21what she did was heinous but you have to ask why theyre bothering to execute her after THIRTY YEARS. every major execution ive ever heard of in the news was used by governors to campaign for re-election without fail.
Emma✨19Everyone outraged by this but not outraged that she carried around a piece of her victim’s skull and showed it off proudly and also tried to kill someone else in prison. That’s wild.
Padraig21127The woman has been in prison for 30 years you're overturning a stay because you're bloodthirsty ghouls.
Collaterly5Fuck every last one of them
Chantal James4Please let's hold & keep Pike's family in our prayers, & Pike during his final days, & god grant him a death of greatest dignity, & welcome him into your eternal grace as your child you created out of love. 📿
Andy Karlson4Addicted to the exercise of power for its own sake.
yappy dog enjoyer3A legal death penalty under fascism will always be used against the most vulnerable, never the people who are actively committing genocide or pedophile trafficking rings.
Prof Antifa3ahhh the PRO LIFE Court strikes again!
Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS *grants* Tennessee's request to vacate the stay of execution the Sixth Circuit had entered in the case of Christa Pike, clearing the way for her execution: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
smm570.bsky.social21party of life and religious zealots just can't get enough state-sponsored murder!
Fred Fine8Spent a lot of years pro death penalty. And still think there are some circumstances that justify. Our system will never find those circumstances. These sick fucks just want to murder folks.
mylittlecorner.bsky.social818 years old at the time of the act. Has already served 30? Years. But is STILL going to be executed? What was her behavior record in prison? Was she expressing remorse the whole time? I don’t know anything.
Triletter7Any state with the death penalty, it should be the governor who must look the inmate in the eye as they press the plunger/button. I guaran-damn-tee ya the executions would be much fewer.
Themistocles’ Wall🇲🇽🇵🇷🇨🇷🇭🇳🇻🇪🇵🇦🇬🇵🇸🇻🇧🇿🇳🇮🇧🇷🇨🇴🇪🇨🇺🇾🇧🇴🇦🇷6horrific👇🏼 “Christa Pike” dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu/advocacy/chr... bsky.app/profile/them...
Chris Gallen6The US is a vile disgusting country for barbarously still having capital punishment in the 21st century. You are not a civilised nation.
Kathy36The six pro-life Catholics on the Supreme Court just love jumping at the chance to kill someone. Maybe they'll have a watch party in their chambers.
Sweatshirt Season Selina 🧥🍂🍁31Disgusting. She was 18 at the time of the crime
Lulu12A lot of people are missing the tragic truth to Pike’s story. Sexually abused at TWO years old, then again at 11 and 17, the system failed to help or protect her. I’m not condoning murder, but when you normalize and trivialize a culture of sexual violence against women, it’s unsurprising.
NTP_Nate11In addition to everything else, this Court is incredibly bloodthirsty.
The Fifth Dentist2There is no justification for the death penalty in catholic doctrine, so one must admire the justices' willingness to put their religious beliefs aside to make their decision on purely secular legal grounds. Think they'll do that with other issues?
Supreme Court allows execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee to move forward. Liberals object to lifting lower court stay.
Themistocles’ Wall🇲🇽🇵🇷🇨🇷🇭🇳🇻🇪🇵🇦🇬🇵🇸🇻🇧🇿🇳🇮🇧🇷🇨🇴🇪🇨🇺🇾🇧🇴🇦🇷6horrific murder committed at 18 in conjunction w/boyfriend who bc he was 17 got life history of childhood abuse & mental disorder horrific
Katelyn Oldham *Abolish ICE. Defund DHS.*5These justices claiming to be Catholic are clearly not.
Elizabeth Holmes3The state shouldn't murder its citizens. Horrific crimes call for horrific punishments. I'd be hard pressed to consider life in prison something other than horrific. Also, and more importantly as a general rule, a state shouldn't murder its people.
