Failed Execution Reignites Long-Running Debate on the Ethics of the Death Penalty
Zendrah Bonnick, Asst. News Editor On Sept. 30, Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the second time where she was given two doses of a lethal injection. The jury found her and her boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp guilty of torturing and murdering Colleen Slemmer, their 19-year-old classmate in 1995. Shipp was sentenced to life in prison at the time of trial. He was a minor, … Continue reading Failed Execution Reignites Long-Running Debate on the Ethics of the Death Penalty
