2026-10-08
12 分钟This is The Guardian.
Just a heads up, this episode includes graphic descriptions of execution.
Some people might find it distressing to listen to.
There is no doubt that they would come at her again if they possibly could.
Whether the politics allows them to, we just don't know yet.
You don't often see there's such a sense of national revulsion, national introspection,
really some deep questions being asked about the future of the death penalty.
Whether they lead to anything is a different matter.
From the Guardians, today in Focus, this is The Latest, with me, Michael Suffy.
Krista Pike was meant to be the first woman executed in Tennessee for nearly 200 years.
Instead, a week later, she's awake, sitting in a hospital bed and talking to her lawyers.
Ed Pilkington, your chief reporter for Guardian US, a close follower of the death penalty in the US.
What state is Krista Pike in now?
How is she?
Yeah, last night was a genuinely jaw-dropping moment when we heard that Krista Pike was conscious and talking.
That's all we've been told.
Absolutely astonishing moment because this is a week after she was given a massive,
massive dose of pentobarbital, a sedative, five grams of it.
So what we know is that she's in a hospital, in a hospital bed.
Her lawyers let us know that...