She survived her execution. Christa Pike took two lethal doses in Tennessee — and lived. Tonight we debate the morality of the death penalty, and lethal injection in particular.
Anthony Abbate of Avoiding Babylon hosts a live Catholic discussion on the botched execution of Christa Pike, the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, what the Church actually teaches on capital punishment, and whether the modern lethal-injection regime can ever be just.
This is not true-crime spectacle. It is a Catholic reading of justice, mercy, and the death penalty in a culture that wants neither.
