Death penalty in the US: awake after a botched execution, Christa Pike reignites the lethal injection debate

South Africa

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Judicial and political angle · 6 of 19 countries

Pretoria is sticking to the wire: the chosen angle is that of the legal recourse, with the request to preserve evidence of a failed execution and the grievance of "cruel and unusual punishment".

Germany

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Medical and technical angle · 6 of 19 countries

Berlin is questioning the reliability of pentobarbital: the German press links the failed execution of Christa Pike at Riverbend to the execution carried out a week later in Texas with the same substance.

Argentina

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Judicial and political angle · 6 of 19 countries

Buenos Aires is examining the legal void opened by Christa Pike: Perfil mentions a possible execution "once again" and the principle of double punishment, Clarín gives the floor to her lawyers.

Australia

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Judicial and political angle · 6 of 19 countries

Canberra is examining the legal issue raised by Christa Pike's survival: if she has severe brain damage, Tennessee may be prohibited from attempting to execute her again.

Belgium

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Narrative centered on the condemned · 7 of 19 countries

Brussels recalls the story of the "unprecedented fiasco": the Belgian press tells the story of Christa Pike's awakening through the words of her lawyer and the renewed debate on the death penalty.

Brazil

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Medical and technical angle · 6 of 19 countries

Brasília is seeking the medical explanation for an impossible survival: the Brazilian press is scrutinizing how Christa Pike withstood two doses of pentobarbital, including the dose, venous routes, and quality of the product.

Spain

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Medical and technical angle · 6 of 19 countries

Madrid is questioning the role of healthcare providers in the Christa Pike case: the medical failure of the lethal injection raises, in the Spanish press, a question of medical ethics before that of punishment.

United States

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Judicial and political angle · 6 of 19 countries

The United States takes a stance on legal grounds: the American press is following the controversy opened by the botched execution of Christa Pike, between preservation of evidence and appeals of other convicts.

Finland

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Narrative centered on the condemned · 7 of 19 countries

Helsinki recounts the Pike case as a close-up human story: the awakening, the first words, the bruised body of a surviving convict, relayed from the American and British press.

France

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Medical and technical angle · 6 of 19 countries

Paris is dissecting an unprecedented medical fiasco: the French press is focusing on the failure of the pentobarbital injection and the issue that Tennessee had not anticipated, that of a condemned woman who wakes up.

Hungary

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Narrative centered on the condemned · 7 of 19 countries

Budapest is telling the Christa Pike case from the perspective of the condemned woman: her first words upon waking, her physical condition and her questions about the victim's family, more than the American debate on the death penalty.

Lithuania

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Narrative centered on the condemned · 7 of 19 countries

Vilnius is dissecting the medical failure of a lethal injection through the body of Christa Pike: Lithuanian presses detail her survival, her swollen hands and her chains more than the legal debate.

Mexico

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Narrative centered on the condemned · 7 of 19 countries

Mexico City retains the human story of a condemned woman who wakes up: the press follows the first words of Christa Pike, her burned arms and her anger, more than the legal debate.

Philippines

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Judicial and political angle · 6 of 19 countries

Manila is examining the failure to execute Christa Pike from a legal standpoint: preserving evidence, the constitutional ban on cruel punishment, and the contradictions of a supposedly painless state-sanctioned death.

Poland

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Narrative centered on the condemned · 7 of 19 countries

Warsaw recounts the ordeal of Christa Pike through her first words and her bruised body, relying almost exclusively on the testimony of her lawyers.

United Kingdom

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Narrative centered on the condemned · 7 of 19 countries

London recounts the Pike case as an unprecedented human drama, between the detained woman chained to her bed and the victim's mother, then follows without transition the resumption of executions in Texas.

Singapore

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Medical and technical angle · 6 of 19 countries

Singapore views the failure of lethal injection in Tennessee through its medical aspect: the pentobarbital that does not kill, the unfindable veins, a condemned woman who wakes up in the hospital.

Sweden

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Medical and technical angle · 6 of 19 countries

Stockholm recounts the Pike case through its first words and its chained body, between astonishment at a "chaotic" execution and medical criticism of a gesture deemed inhuman.

Switzerland

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Judicial and political angle · 6 of 19 countries

Bern notes, through the German-speaking and French-speaking press, that Christa Pike's failure does not interrupt the American machine: a Texan is executed a week later, while Tennessee suspends its own.