Ep. 1849 - Left Wing Radicals Side With An Evil Murderous Woman AGAIN

30 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 even that long. Christa Pike could have been, 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 octave 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. Now, typically the condemned criminal gets an automatic state level appeal. That happens right away. If that appeal fails, they appeal to the state again. If that fails, they appeal to the federal courts, and this round of appeals goes through three tiers, of course, the US District District Court, the US Court of Appeals, and then the Supreme Court. And if all of that fails, they start filing rapid fire, machine gun style motions and petitions for emergency stays of the executions and clemency. And this whole charade goes on for years and years and years. The average death row inmate in this country gets 18 years to badger every possible court at every possible level to bail them out. Christopher 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 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 might still find a way out. And that appears to be what has happened at least for now with Christopher Pike. So last night her execution, finally, after three decades of stalling began, but it didn't finish around 739 PM central time. Some minutes into the execution process, Pike told her spiritual advisor who was in the execution chamber with her. That quote, the vein in my arm feels like it's about to burst. She was strapped down on a gurney at the River Bend maximum security institution in Nashville. Having received what was supposed to be a lethal dose of pentobarbitol, a nervous system depressive 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 United States for use in executions. They spent 15 years of 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. At 745, she yawned very loudly and began snoring, lifted her head up briefly at 754 by 803. The snoring was loud. Her body flexed at 805 and she gasped for air. Shortly after her, 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 an execution last I checked is to kill the person. 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 nonpartisan unbiased reporters, and all of them are clearly activists who oppose the death penalty, and they don't even hide it. Watch. It appeared that this did not go like they thought it was supposed to go, but we don't know that. When we left the building, so far as we knew, she was probably still alive. You just saw the emergency vehicles pull up. We don't know her status, and I think it's fair to say, and these guys will tell you more. We have a lot of questions, and the Department of Correction has a lot of answers that it needs to provide to the public about what happened here. Why was it that, by the time the blinds went down for the second time in 805, she was still breathing, and her breathing at points was very rhythmic. Now, at times it appeared labored, she was snoring at times, but she was still breathing. We had to listen to all that from 805 until we left the building with the blinds down. We could not see what was happening. We heard activity, but we don't know what happened. We're not sure that's appropriate, and that's a question that we'd like answered. I will say I've witnessed, I believe, five executions in Tennessee. Nothing about today was normal, typical at all, and the court delay was just the tip of the iceberg. The mic was on, and she was, at that point, so when the curtains were open, she was kind of inconsistently going in and out of snores and silence. When the curtains close, the final time at 805, we could consistently hear her snoring, and then it kind of developed into a snore squeak, and then a snore, and even at 853, when the microphone was cut off, we could still hear snoring. I saw a tear roll down her right eye, and then she said one spot is really throbbing. And then she and her spiritual advisor started to talk. This is still within 734 to 737. They say, "Tel, I couldn't hear the name," but Pike says, "Tel, blank. I love him." Her spiritual advisor agrees or shakes his head at least. At 737, I recognize that she started to talk less, but she took four separate significant breaths, large enough to wear. You could see, I do want to note that almost the entire time she was kicking her feet, so often that she was actually knocking the sheet that laid over her off, and one of the T-Doc employees had to come and put that back on her. Her lip quivered at one point. It sounded like she was almost choking, at 751, her snoring started again. I want to note, while all of this is happening, we were hearing an alarm go off. We later determined it to most likely be the battery warning of T-Doc employees, communication devices with inside the prison. The batteries were dying because they had been running for so long, and as we were waiting, their batteries and their microphones were dying. Well, where's a Canadian doctor when you need one? They take care of this problem very quickly. They're extremely efficient killers. All we have to do is tell them that Christopoeia is depressed, or maybe it has diabetes, and they'd have her in a body bag in about five minutes. Actually, maybe they'd have some difficulty, too. Canadian-made doctors use a drug called propifal when they're killing old people to harvest their organs. We can't use propifal because Europe won't ship the drug to us. Think of how bizarre that is, because Europeans are so allegedly civilized, they're leaving us with no choice if we insist on doing lethal injections and carrying out executions that way as opposed to other ways. There's no choice except to use a drug that maximizes the likelihood of a prolonged agonizing death. You can argue that there's a poetic justice in a certain way since Pike tortured her victim, and now something similar happened to her. But this whole situation is 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. Well, listen to what she asked to say, but the obvious caveat is that as with all of those other reporters, she's probably ideologically opposed to the death penalty, so keep that in mind. Watch. Hi, Catherine Sweeney WPLN. I came up here earlier and I wasn't super sure about the dose of Pinto Barbatol, so I pulled up the protocol. So what they do is they have a set of four syringes, one is saline, and then there's two syringes of 50 milliliters of Pinto Barbatol. So what happens is the IV team determines the IV sites, IV team members insert the catheter, they establish access, then the special operations team leader ensures that the catheters are properly secured. Yeah, they establish access. The physician can insert a central line if they need to, and then they just, they push it and they can do a whole second batch if they need to. Again, that's extremely rare. This is an enormous dose of a sedative that should not ever need to happen twice, but it did, and then she stayed alive. I think one of the issues we have here is the protocol doesn't talk about what happens if you do this twice and they're still alive. I don't think that that is something that was planned for. So there was no rules about when to open the curtain after for a second time. This is pretty unprecedented. None of it should have happened, and it wasn't planned for. It made it really hard for the prison system to navigate, and it made it hard for us to understand what was going on. Of course, we got out here, and then you all saw the ambulance going away with sirens, so we can presume that there was somebody alive in that, but we don't know, we're not being told. So that's all I wanted to add. - You know, there's kind of a morbid irony since when Pike was explaining why it took so long for her to murder the innocent girl she killed, she stated, "And I quote, the 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. You know, 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. 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 whole state for the rest of the year saying there needs to be a quote, "comprehensive third party review" to determine exactly what occurred. But of course, you don't need a comprehensive investigation to execute this woman. You know, 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. It's not 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 in the alternative, a short rope and a slightly longer trip off of a raised platform could do the trick. A reliable tried and true method that doesn't rely on complicated cocktails and chemistry experiments. And in this case, remarkably enough, Pike actually requested death by hanging. In fact, she wanted an all-female execution squad to hang her. This is from the New York Post quote, 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 lawyer says 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 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 lacked the equipment to hang her. Again, this is a farce, not a very funny one, but it is a farce. The state intentionally makes it more complicated than it needs to be. I mean, how can you lack the equipment to hang someone? I'm sorry to be crude about it, but I could run to Home Depot and be back with all the necessary equipment in 45 minutes. I won't even make you reimburse me for the cost. Think of it as a donation. But again, the process is made deliberately convoluted. And it's made convoluted for a reason. The reason we do the lethal injection in the first place, and the reason we do it that way is to sanitize it's for the benefit of outside observers that we sanitize it to try to make it seem like something other than what it is. There's no reason to do that. An execution is you're killing someone. And that is justice in this person's case and the case of anybody on death row. There's no reason to hide from it. It is simply a method of hiding from what you're doing. Because the lethal injection is not a more efficient way of doing it. It's certainly not a cheaper way of doing it. And it's not even necessarily a more painless way of doing it, as we've seen. It's a way that has all kinds of ways, there's all kinds of ways that that method can fail, whereas these other methods don't. Death by hanging over in seconds, very quick, very easy. But again, when you do that, there's no hiding from it. It's very clear that we are killing someone here. You can't dress it up and try to medicalize it. See, this is what we want to do in mind. We try to medicalize everything. You sanitize and medicalize everything, especially death, especially when someone is being killed. And in this case, you know, you'd be forgiven for being a bit conspiratorial about all this. The Christopheite case attracted national attention. You become the latest cause celebra on the left and among feminists. A great deal was made of the fact that she's 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 this hysteria, Christopheite 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. Under Fowler's guidance, execution team couldn't establish IV access to the veins of a murderer named Tony Carruthers taking over an hour. And now it's happened again. Potentially with Fowler overseeing this team, maybe an all female team. She requested that, as we said, the state said they'd consider it. I don't think we'd been told whether they actually did use an all female team. Now, lethal injection fails about 7% of the time, but the odds of it going wrong twice are less than 1/2 of 1%. You know, it's possible they missed a vein or something once again, but to my knowledge, Christopheite is now the first person in recorded history to survive an execution after both doses of the lethal injection were fully administered. She survived plan A and plan B. And as you heard, 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 one of 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. I mean, you're not crazy if you're suspicious. That's all I'm saying. In fact, consider me suspicious. Female jurors just sabotaged a jury to keep Lindsey Clancy out of jail that somebody sabotaged a lethal injection to keep a female murderer out of a coffin. It's a viable possibility. 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You can get election reminders, look up your polling locations, and pick a date to vote early. Go to GOPvotes.org today, paid for by SLF PAC, not authorized by any candidate or candidates committee. Take a look at the crowds of women who have been gathering outside the prison in recent days to show support for PAC, who is a Satan worshipper, who, as I mentioned, and will discuss in more detail a moment, brutally tortured and carved up an innocent woman, an innocent girl. So it's very similar what we saw during the Lindsey Clancy trial watch. This is-- is much more highly attended, I have to think maybe what's different is that it's a female and that we haven't executed a female in Tennessee in 200 years. So perhaps that's what has drawn more attention to this one. I remember when the excuse for this kind of behavior was a postpartum depression. Feminist said they were defending Lindsey Clancy because she suffered from a mental illness. They only affects women in which causes a random voice to appear in their heads, issuing orders that for some unknown reason they cannot possibly refuse. Postpartum depression doesn't affect a woman's ability to carefully plan a brutal homicide, but it does mean that they can't be held responsible for their actions. That was a claim. And now, less than a month later, we have the same kinds of crowds gathering to defend a female murderer again. But this time there's no postpartum psychosis to fall back on. So what's the excuse? Why should we have any sympathy for this person at all? Well, the leftist rallying to her defense can't think of any reason other than the fact that she's a woman. That's it. That's all they've got. Countless headlines have been published highlighting this fact that she's a woman. Every article mentions it as though it's significant on its own. Christopheique isn't just a murderer set to be executed. She's a woman set to be executed. And this, in and of itself, as you just heard from that activist, 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. I can't see that woman can't. If you were to ask her, okay, what makes it worse because it's a woman? What exactly? Because if men and women are exactly equal as any of these activists would claim, then there's nothing notable at all about executing a woman as opposed to a man. And that should especially be the case here, given the details of the case. And the more you dig into it, the more disturbing it is. So let's start with the factual background. I gave you the one cent in summary of this woman's crimes, but you need the full story to truly appreciate what a depraved wicked monster this woman is. So when she was 18 years old, Christopheique 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. But out of the blue on January 11th of 1995, Pike told a friend that she intended to murder another student named Colleen Slammer. Simply because, and I quote, she had just felt mean that day. The next day on January 12th, around 8 p.m. Pike, along with her boyfriend, was spotted walking away from the Job Center, along with Slammer and another student. A little over two hours later, a witness saw the group return to the Job Center without Slammer. It didn't take long for Pike to implicate herself in Slammer's disappearance. That night, Pike went to a friend's room and confessed to killing Slammer adding that she had brought back a piece of the victim's skull as a souvenir. That's a quote from 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 say that the victim had begged her attackers to stop, but they kept throwing asphalt at her. And 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 a pentagram had been carved onto the victim's forehead and chest. Quote, 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 in 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 course 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 Slammer's skull. Pike also added also told the student that she had slashed Slammer's throat six times and had beaten her in the head with a rock. Pike told the student that victims of blood and brains have been pouring out and that she had picked up the piece of skull when she left the scene. Now, you might think hearing this that someone would have alerted the authorities, two students independently heard Pike confessing to the brutal murder of another student who's now missing and none of these people called 911 apparently. Instead, Slammer'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. And then he saw all the clothing and he realized what had happened. When investigators questioned Pike, she confessed to the murder at length. She claimed that Slammer had been "trying to get her boyfriend" and had been running her mouth everywhere. She told the investigator that she had invited Slammer to walk together to a blockbuster store and told her about a hidden stash of marijuana. And then Pike and her boyfriend tateroal ship ambushed Slammer when they arrived at a esteem plant on the UT campus, hitting her repeatedly as she screamed, "Why are you doing this to me?" The attack lasted between 30 minutes to an hour during which the two attackers forced Slammer to remove her clothing, including her underwear and also tied a rag around her mouth to prevent her from talking. They slit her throat several times and stabbed her so many times that the medical examiner couldn't even identify all of the wounds to her body. They could only identify Slammer through dental records. So this was a protracted gruesome savage murder. And there was evidence according to medical examiner that Slammer Slammer was alive when most of this was done to her. Two days later at the police station, both Pike and her boyfriend were photographed wearing pentagram necklaces. They both claimed to be devil worshipers and I think we should take them at their word on that. At trial of defense witness, a clinical psychologist testified that Pike was extremely bright with an IQ around 77th percentile, which not to be pedantic is slightly above average intelligence, hardly qualifying is 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. And 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, quote, "Pike's mother's home was very dirty." And quote, "Pike's mother set no rules for her." Oh, I guess Pike's mother never set the rule saying, "Hey, don't brutally torture and kill anybody." And since she was never told about that rule, she didn't know she was not supposed to do that. 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, Christopher Pike clearly deserved the death sentence that she received. It would be hard to point to any criminal in modern history that deserved it more than her, although there are plenty who have deserved it as much as her. 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 Christopher Pike herself, in her own words, accepted this punishment at the time, watch. This is perhaps the most straightforward death penalty case imaginable. Now, if this Satanist doesn't deserve the death penalty, then nobody does. And that's why, although Pike appealed her conviction and sentenced multiple times, the courts rejected every single one of her appeals. And rejecting appeals would have been even easier considering that even being sent to prison did not stop Christopher 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 convicted of trying to orchestrate an escape from prison. So 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 six-circuit court of appeals in a two-to-one ruling issued a stay of execution. And this stay was quickly overturned by the Supreme Court, with, of course, all the DEI liberal judges dissenting, but we still need to address the question, how could the judges have issued this stay in the first place? Why? What she did was brutal and heinous. She's unrepentant, even if she was repentant. I mean, still, she should be executed. But by the way, she's unrepentant. And she'd already been through a million appeals. Why would you come in at the last minute and say, hang on? Well, 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, exactly what you'd expect. and here's Judge Jane Stratch. 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 a, you know, it's more of the demographic tribalism that has infected our courts for years, which we've documented on the show at great length. If you're a woman, then chances are high that female judges and female jurors, as I said, are going to be predisposed to be on your side. They're going to try to invent some absurd pretext to bail you out. The same principle applies when it comes to ethnicity, and race and political affiliation. As we know, Democrat judges help 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. The 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 and court during a recent hearing, is grounds for a stay of execution. Here's the statement from the prosecutor. It says, quote, "Now as for issue two, which deals with Miss Pike's cited history of sexual assault and PTSD. The state does not dispute the terrible things that Miss Pike suffered. I think everybody in this courtroom wishes that those things had never happened to Miss 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 Miss Pike has experienced, but that's not the issue before the court." That's it. That's all there is, 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 applied to male defendants, at least not white males, but because she's a woman, they're deeply concerned about her PTSD. A lot of the activists and leftists who have rallied to her cause have brought this up, that she was horribly victimized when she was younger, which again, for first of all, how do we know that even happened? We've just taken her word for it. She's a, by her own family's description, a pathological liar, also a satanic murderer. So literally nothing she says means anything. But if it did happen, it doesn't excuse what she did. As I've said many times, you can have a sob story. You can have, you can talk about the terrible things that were done to you. And if you're a law-abiding person, then that will engender you some sympathy, as it should. But the moment that you go out and brutally victimize someone else, your sob story does not matter. Okay, you can't sit there and complain about people who victimize you because now you are a victimizer. Now you are a predator yourself. You're just as bad as the bad person who did whatever they did to you. You've joined them. So now we condemn them for what they did to you, but we also condemn you because you're just like them. In particular, they're upset about the fact that previously, you know, the prosecutor 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 I see correctly pointed out. Again, it doesn't matter whether it's true or not, it shouldn't affect her sentence in any way. Once you start carving pentagrams into people's chests and giggling with the light of the thought of butchering an innocent woman and, you know, showing off pieces of their skull as a personal souvenir, your personal problems are irrelevant. 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A growing number of courts outside the United States accords that 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. And Pratt, the Attorney General of Jamaica, for example, the Prairie Council considered whether Jamaica lawfully could execute two prisoners held for 14 years after sentencing. Which by the way, if even if we accept that reasoning, okay, that's just an argument, for like I said, execute them in 30 days. Keep it up all the ridiculous appeals. And let's get it done in 30 days. I'm on board for that. It sounds like we all kind of agree that dragging this out for 30 years is ridiculous. It sounds like people on both sides can agree on that. All right, so let's make it a lot quicker. And it translates what Breyer said. He's citing he's citing courts in Jamaica for their rulings on the death penalty. He's giving Jamaican courts as well as courts in Zimbabwe and 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. So if you're 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. So they intentionally make the process long and then use the fact that the process was long as a reason to abolish the death penalty. It's circular reasoning and he's citing Jamaican law not the Constitution of the United States to justify it as Claire's 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 a pellet procedures and then complain when his execution is delayed. Indeed, were there any such support in our 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, quote, "seaseless quest to end the death penalty through undemocratic means." They were, quote, "replacing judgments of the people with courts-owned 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. And 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 know, 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 Yaya sisterhood. The fact that she's a satanic murderer evidently doesn't matter. Nor does it matter to the mob of women who gathered outside the prison to show their support for Pike. You know, we're at the point where every other day a woman receives an outpouring of public support for engaging an unspeakably-depraved acts, one which at any other point in human history would have led to swift justice. You know, in some cases in the form of a witch trial. And for that reason, it's well past time that we talk about the scourge of female privilege in this country, which is now completely out of control. Very few people are talking about it, even though it's thrust in our faith, is every day, especially over the last month or two, it's like they're not even trying to hide it anymore. Feminists who once pretended to believe in the, you know, 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 is. They sound exactly like the, you know, the quote unquote misogynist that they're constantly complaining about 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 Jerry's and in the media. As a result, it's become extremely difficult to punish these women for the crimes they commit. First, we saw nine female jurors refused to convict Lindsey Clancy, even though it's very clear that she brutally killed her own children, you know, to protect the right of women to slaughter their kids at will. The mob went after the loan, hold out on the jury, a black guy who actually cared about the evidence and the law. Then we saw the Democrat party in 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 front 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 she said that never happened. And now feminists are defending a satanic murderer who killed an innocent girl because she felt like it. And there is irony in that, by the way, that, you know, the people rallying around Chris DePike because she's a woman, well, she killed a girl. And the person that she tried to kill a few years later in prison was also a woman. You know, as mentioned, part of the reason they're defending Chris DePike 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. So Tennessee has an executed woman in 200 years. Is that because no woman in Tennessee has committed a barbaric crime in that time frame? I'm pretty confident that's not the case. I mean, you can go fact check me out. I'm pretty confident that if you were to go check, you would find plenty of cases in Tennessee of women committing murder. It's also a window into again, the demographic tribalism that has taken hold in this country. Feminist recognize the possibility that, you know, woman might finally be held accountable for her actions and they immediately rally to her defenses like watching the BLM thugs mobilize whenever a black criminal stabs a cop or tries to ask 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 UK that, quote, I feel a kinship with Lindsey Clancy, where both females who got into trouble because of our uniquely female issues. This is another way, again, that you know that she's unrepentant is that she's saying this kind of, I mean, she's, you know, at this point was days away from what was supposed to be her execution and she's going to the media with this woe is me claiming that she's in trouble for female issues. This is someone who will not accept any accountability for her actions. Even now, up to the point of death still would not. In fact, by the way, that when they carried out the execution, which apparently didn't take, but basically what we're hearing from her statements, and this is at the moment where she thinks she's about to die, like all the, all the escape hatches have been closed now for good. As far as she knows, she's about to die. And still apparently there was no real statement of, of like real heartfelt contrition even then. If all of her statements even then were still, what was me? It's all about me. So yes, they both got in trouble due to uniquely female issues and what are those uniquely female issues? Well, they're both murderers and they're both female. I mean, that's about it. The idea that only women get depressed after having children and that only women can be abused when they're young is obviously completely absurd. But millions of feminists have brainwashed themselves into believing that nonsense as a way of avoiding accountability for their actions. The case of Christopher is not complicated. She butchered a girl, tortured her in a remote location, 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 or used to be. But they're still around, they're still around 20 or 30 per year. Last year there were I think 50 over 50 executions carried out. You don't hear about most of them. Why is that? Well, 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. And as you might have guessed from the name or might remember if you follow the news, Williams was black. And that was very explicitly one of the primary factors that for the activists made the executions somehow problematic. Same thing applies now to Christopher's because of her sex. But the correct view on all of this is that evil people should face the just consequences of their actions. Doesn't matter what demographic cohort they belong to. Doesn't matter if they're a man or a woman, if they're white or black, doesn't matter if they have a sob story or abuse as a child or had postpartum depression or suffer from anxiety or ADHD or restless legs 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 itself 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've become squeamish about it. That's why Lindsey Clancy is not serving life in prison right now. It's why Christopoeic 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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