Reposted by Joost Verhoef
NEW: Three weeks before Tennessee’s botched execution of Christa Pike, the state’s Catholic bishops wrote to Gov. Bill Lee and asked him to halt it. Lee, a pro-life evangelical, denied clemency anyway.
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Defying Pope Leo XIV and Tennessee’s Bishops, Bill Lee Sends Christa Pike to a Botched Execution
Two doses of pentobarbital failed to kill her on Wednesday night, and Michael Knowles answered with a joke about crushing her skull. Twelve days earlier, the governor had called Tennessee to prayer an...