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

The Matt Walsh Show

Matt Walsh discusses the botched execution of Krista Pike in Tennessee, where the convict survived multiple doses of lethal injection. He ar

Key takeaways

• Krista Pike survived the administration of multiple doses of pentobarbital, leading to her hospitalization rather than death.
• The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay of execution based on prosecutor statements regarding Pike's history of PTSD and trauma.

Main topics

• Krista Pike execution
• Death penalty appeals process

Notable quotes

The state tried to kill her. Now they're nursing her her back to life.

Conclusion

Walsh concludes that the modern justice system is being undermined by

Transcript preview

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Once she was convicted of her crime, a crime she definitely committed and admits to committing, the execution ought to have 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 courts, the U.S. District Court, the U.S. 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. Krista 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 Krista Pike. So last night, her execution, finally, after three decades of stalling, began. But it didn't finish. Around 7.39 p.m. 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 Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, having received what was supposed to be a lethal dose of pentobarbital, a nervous system depressant 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 the United States. for use in executions. They've 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 7.45, she yawned very loudly and began snoring, lifted her head up briefly at 7.54. By 8.03, the snoring was loud. Her body flexed at 8.05 and she gasped for air. Shortly afterward, 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. Speaker 2 (5:40) And all of them are clearly activists who oppose the death penalty, and they don't even hide it. Watch. Speaker 3 (5:47) 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 at 8.05, 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 8.05 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 Speaker 4 (6:43) 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 closed the final time at 8.05, we could consistently hear her snoring. And then it kind of developed into a snore squeak. and then a snore and even at 8 53 when the microphone was cut off, we could still hear snoring. I Speaker 5 (7:15) 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, tell, I couldn't hear the name, but Pike says, tell blank, I love him. Her spiritual advisor agrees or shakes his head at least. At 737, I recognized that she started to talk less, but she took four separate significant breaths, large enough to where you could see. Speaker 5 (7:52) 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 7.51, 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 Speaker 5 (8:26) The battery warning of T-Doc employees communication devices with inside the penitent prison, the batteries were dying because they had been running for so long. And as we were waiting, their batteries in their microphones were dying. Speaker 2 (8:43) 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 Krista Pike is depressed or maybe 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 propofol when they're killing old people to harvest their organs, and we can't use propofol 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. I mean, 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. Speaker 2 (9:38) 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 here who witnessed the botched execution. And we'll listen to what she has 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. Speaker 6 (10:08) Hi, Catherine Sweeney, WPLN. I came up here earlier and I wasn't super sure about the dose of pentobarbital, 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 pentobarbital. 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. Speaker 6 (10:49) 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 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. Speaker 2 (11:46) 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. Now, 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. And 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