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Texas execution proceeds after lawyers seek pause over Pike case
The execution follows Christa Pike's failed lethal injection, with a judge ordering evidence in her case preserved.
The BBC reports that Texas carried out the first US execution since Christa Pike's botched lethal injection, after Jamaal Howard's lawyers sought a pause. Separate BBC and NPR items report that Pike survived and is conscious. NPR reports that a judge ordered evidence from her execution attempt preserved.
What holds up
- ✓BBC and NPR reporting corroborates Pike's survival and subsequent wakefulness.
- ✓NPR reports an evidence-preservation order, while the BBC reports the Texas execution and lawyers' request to pause it.
What doesn't yet
- ?The Texas execution's status as the first since Pike's failed execution is reported only by the BBC.
- ?Descriptions of Pike as angry, confused and shackled to a hospital bed come from her lawyers; medical records and the court orders are not supplied.
Ask before you share
- →What reasons did the court give for its handling of Howard's requested pause?
- →What evidence must be preserved, and what does it establish about Pike's failed execution?