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00:00:28.42030 years ago, Krista Pike tortured a young girl to death using, at various points in the lengthy process, a knife, a meat cleaver, and a chunk of asphalt.0.98
00:00:39.120Last night, finally, after three decades on death row, she was supposed to face the consequences of her crime.
00:00:46.720There's no reason why it should have taken even that long.
00:00:49.800Krista Pike could have been, should have been killed long ago.
00:00:53.380She should be fully decomposed in an unmarked grave outside of the prison by now.
00:00:57.880Once she was convicted of her crime, a crime she definitely committed and admits to committing,
00:01:04.200the execution ought to have been carried out within 30 days, if not sooner than that.
00:01:08.340But our almost comically convoluted system is designed to drag things out as long as possible,
00:01:14.620giving duly and justly condemned criminals every possible chance to desperately claw their way out of the hole they've dug for themselves.
00:01:24.880Now, typically, the condemned criminal gets an automatic state-level appeal.
00:12:47.380Now, in this case, remarkably enough, Pike actually requested death by hanging.1.00
00:12:51.760In fact, she wanted an all-female execution squad to hang her.
00:12:55.460This is from the New York Post, quote,
00:12:58.440In the event that she is not spared from execution, Pike has made a special request.1.00
00:13:02.220She wants an all-female execution squad to carry out the procedure in front of witnesses, including the family of her victim.
00:13:08.720The reason, her lawyer says, is that she has post-traumatic stress disorder from the widely documented abuse she suffered at the hands of men as a young girl, including when she was just two years old.
00:13:17.960They also say her death by lethal injection will be prolonged and agonizing because she has a rare blood disorder that could make finding a vein difficult and affect the way she reacts to the drug.
00:13:27.300So afraid, as Pike, of the execution being carried out by lethal injection that she took the state to court in August to ask that she be hanged instead.
00:13:35.560The judge rejected her motion to be hanged since the state of Tennessee claimed they lacked the equipment to hang her.
00:13:40.360again this is a farce um not a very funny one but it is a farce the state intentionally makes
00:13:51.280it more complicated than it needs to be i mean how can you lack the equipment to hang someone
00:13:55.560i'm sorry to be crude about it but you know i could run to home depot and be back with all
00:14:00.840the necessary equipment in 45 minutes i won't even make you reimburse me for the cost think of it as
00:14:07.960a donation. But again, the process is made deliberately convoluted. And it's made convoluted
00:14:16.400for a reason. The reason we do the lethal injection in the first place, the only reason
00:14:20.960we do it that way is to sanitize. It's for the benefit of outside observers that we sanitize it
00:14:28.760to try to make it seem like something other than what it is. There's no reason to do that. An
00:14:34.960execution is you're killing someone. And that is justice in this person's case and the case of
00:14:42.660anybody on death row. There's no reason to hide from it. It is simply a method of hiding from
00:14:48.800what you're doing because a lethal injection is not a more efficient way of doing it. It's
00:14:54.320certainly not a cheaper way of doing it. And it's not even necessarily a more painless way of doing
00:14:59.020it. As we've seen, it's a way that has all kinds of ways. There's all kinds of ways that that
00:15:05.320method can fail, whereas these other methods don't. Death by hanging over in seconds, very
00:15:13.760quick, very easy. But again, when you do that, there's no hiding from it. It's very clear that
00:15:20.980we are killing someone here. You can't dress it up and try to medicalize it. See, this is what we
00:15:27.320want to do in modern society. We try to medicalize everything. You sanitize and medicalize
00:15:32.020everything, especially death, especially when someone is being killed. And in this case,
00:15:40.840you'd be forgiven for being a bit conspiratorial about all this. The Krista Pike case attracted
00:15:46.800national attention. She had become the latest cause celebra on the left and among feminists.0.84
00:15:52.200a great deal was made of the fact that she's a female prisoner facing execution, as though0.52
00:15:57.820it's somehow inherently problematic to execute a female murderer as opposed to a male murderer.
00:16:04.000And in the midst of all this hysteria, Krista Pike winds up somehow surviving multiple doses
00:16:09.440of lethal injection and is now apparently recovering in a hospital. You might wonder
00:16:13.660whether it was botched on purpose. That's not an unreasonable possibility to consider.
00:16:19.300botched executions do happen. In fact, in fairness, the planning for this execution
00:16:23.300involved the same doctor, a guy named Mark Fowler, who participated in a failed injection
00:16:27.920earlier this year. Under Fowler's guidance, the execution team couldn't establish IV access to
00:16:34.120the veins of a murderer named Tony Carruthers taking over an hour. And now it's happened again,
00:16:39.860potentially with Fowler overseeing this team, maybe an all-female team. She requested that,
00:16:46.320as we said, the state said they'd consider it. I don't think we'd been told whether they actually
00:16:51.440did use an all-female teen. Now, lethal injection fails about 7% of the time,1.00
00:16:57.640but the odds of it going wrong twice are less than one half of 1%. Now, it's possible they
00:17:04.600missed a vein or something once again, but to my knowledge, Krista Pike is now the first person
00:17:10.260in recorded history to survive an execution after both doses of the lethal injection were
00:17:16.740fully administered. She survived plan A and plan B. And as you heard, they didn't even
00:17:23.280have a protocol in place for what to do after that because nobody has ever made it past
00:17:27.340plan B. So what are the chances that something this unprecedented just happened to occur
00:17:33.520during one of the most high profile executions of the century and the first female to be
00:17:39.120executed in Tennessee in 200 years just so happens to be the one to survive the execution in a manner
00:17:44.220that so far can't even be explained. I mean, you're not crazy if you're suspicious. That's
00:17:49.700all I'm saying. In fact, consider me suspicious. Female jurors just sabotaged a jury to keep
00:17:56.740Lindsay Clancy out of jail. Did somebody sabotage a lethal injection to keep a female murderer out1.00
00:18:00.860of a coffin? It's a viable possibility. I'm not saying that did happen, but it's a possibility.1.00
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00:20:05.800Take a look at the crowds of women who have been gathering outside the prison in recent days to show support for Pike.
00:20:12.600Pike, who is a Satan worshiper, who, as I mentioned, and we'll discuss in more detail in a moment, brutally tortured and carved up an innocent woman, innocent girl.
00:20:22.980So it's very similar to what we saw during the Lindsay Clancy trial. Watch.0.95
00:20:26.360This is much more highly attended. I have to think maybe what's different is that it's a female and that we haven't executed a female in Tennessee in 200 years. So perhaps that's what has drawn more attention to this one.0.92
00:20:42.380You know, remember when the excuse for this kind of behavior was postpartum depression? Feminists said they were defending Lindsay Clancy because she suffered from a mental illness that only affects women and which causes a random voice to appear in their heads, issuing orders that for some unknown reason they cannot possibly.1.00
00:20:56.360possibly refuse. Postpartum oppression doesn't affect a woman's ability to carefully plan a1.00
00:21:02.020brutal homicide, but it does mean that they can't be held responsible for their actions. That was0.99
00:21:06.180a claim. And now, less than a month later, we have the same kinds of crowds gathering to defend a
00:21:11.740female murderer again. But this time, there's no postpartum psychosis to fall back on. So what's
00:21:17.480the excuse? Why should we have any sympathy for this person at all? Well, the leftist rallying
00:21:26.000her defense can't think of any reason other than the fact that she's a woman. That's it. That's1.00
00:21:30.200all they've got. Countless headlines have been published highlighting this fact that she's a0.98
00:21:35.420woman. Every article mentions it as though it's significant on its own. Krista Pike isn't just a
00:21:43.060murderer set to be executed. She's a woman set to be executed. And this in and of itself, as you1.00
00:21:48.840just heard from that activist, is supposed to make the execution somehow more brutal or more tragic
00:22:09.720Because if men and women are exactly equal, as any of these activists would claim,
00:22:16.000then there's nothing notable at all about executing a woman as opposed to a man.
00:22:20.280and that should especially be the case here given the details of the case and the more you dig into
00:22:26.400it the more disturbing it is so let's start with the factual background i gave you the one sentence0.99
00:22:31.380summary of this woman's crimes but you need the full story to truly appreciate what a depraved1.00
00:22:36.820wicked monster this woman is so when she was 18 years old krista pike was a student at the job0.97
00:22:43.640core center in knoxville which was basically a government-funded vocational school that was0.96
00:22:47.200supposed to help troubled kids get a job, although, as you can imagine, like all government programs,
00:22:51.600the job center was poorly managed and quickly became a blight on the community with constant
00:22:55.860criminal activity. Out of the blue, on January 11th of 1995, Pike told a friend that she intended
00:23:01.360to murder another student named Colleen Slemmer, simply because, and I quote, she had just felt
00:23:07.460mean that day. The next day on January 12th, around 8 p.m., Pike, along with her boyfriend,
00:23:12.700was spotted walking away from the job center, along with Slemmer and another student,
00:23:16.600And a little over two hours later, a witness saw the group return to the job center without Slemmer.
00:23:23.020Now, it didn't take long for Pike to implicate herself in Slemmer's disappearance.
00:23:26.380That night, Pike went to a friend's room and confessed to killing Slemmer,
00:23:30.440adding that she had brought back a piece of the victim's skull as a souvenir.
00:23:35.260That's a quote from the Supreme Court of Tennessee from their review of the case.
00:23:39.580Pike then showed her friend a piece of skull and explained that she had cut the victim's throat six times,
00:23:44.300beaten her and thrown asphalt at the victim's head. Pike went on to state that the victim had
00:23:49.140begged her attackers to stop, but they kept throwing asphalt at her. And at one point,
00:23:54.600Pike confessed that a meat cleaver had been used to cut the victim's back and a box cutter had been
00:23:59.260used to cut her throat. Finally, Pike said a pentagram had been carved onto the victim's
00:24:03.820forehead and chest. Quote, Pike was dancing in a circle, smiling and singing la la la while she
00:24:10.940related these details about the murder. When her friend saw Pike at breakfast the next morning,
00:24:16.180she asked Pike what she had done with the piece of the victim's skull. Pike replied that it was
00:24:20.420in her pocket and then said, and yes, I'm eating breakfast with it. During a class later that
00:24:26.180morning, Pike made a similar statement to another job course student. Pike pointed to brown spots
00:24:30.780on her shoes and said, that ain't mud on my shoes, that's blood. Pike then pulled a napkin from her0.99
00:24:36.040pocket and showed another student a piece of bone, which Pike said was a piece of slumber's skull.
00:24:40.340Pike also told the student that she had slashed Slemmer's throat six times and had beaten her in the head with a rock.
00:24:48.680Pike told the student the victim's blood and brains had been pouring out, that she had picked up the piece of skull when she left the scene.
00:24:57.780Now, you might think, hearing this, that someone would have alerted the authorities.
00:25:01.540Two students independently heard Pike confessing to the brutal murder of another student, who's now missing, and none of these people called 911, apparently.
00:25:07.740Instead, Slemmer's body remained undiscovered until a member of the University of Tennessee
00:25:11.620grounds department stumbled on the corpse the next morning.
00:25:14.600The body was so badly mangled that at first the custodian thought he was looking at a
00:25:34.920She told the investigator that she had invited Slemmer to walk together to a blockbuster store, then told her about a hidden stash of marijuana.
00:25:43.140And then Pike and her boyfriend, Taterall, ship ambushed Slemmer when they arrived at a steam plant on the UT campus, hitting her repeatedly as she screamed, why are you doing this to me?
00:25:56.380The attack lasted between 30 minutes to an hour, during which the two attackers0.50
00:25:59.840forced Slemmer to remove her clothing, including her underwear, and also tied a
00:26:03.700rag around her mouth to prevent her from talking. They slit her throat several times
00:26:08.040and stabbed her so many times that the medical examiner couldn't even identify
00:26:11.780all of the wounds to her body. They could only identify Slemmer through dental records.
00:26:16.900So this was a protracted, gruesome, savage murder. And there was evidence,
00:26:25.060according to a medical examiner, that Slummer was alive when most of this was done to her.
00:26:31.660Two days later at the police station, both Pike and her boyfriend were photographed wearing
00:26:35.080pentagram necklaces. They both claimed to be devil worshipers, and I think we should take
00:26:41.700them at their word on that. At trial of defense witness, a clinical psychologist testified that
00:26:46.200Pike was extremely bright with an IQ around 77th percentile, which not to be pedantic,
00:26:51.260like a slightly above average intelligence,
00:26:53.360hardly qualifying is extremely bright.0.99
00:26:55.200But the point is that she was not mentally retarded0.94
00:33:23.700As I've said many times, you can have a sob story, you can talk about the terrible things that were done to you, and if you're a law-abiding person, then that will engender you some sympathy, as it should.
00:33:39.860But the moment that you go out and brutally victimize someone else, your sob story does not matter.
00:33:45.660okay you can't sit there and complain about people who victimize you because now you are
00:33:52.040a victimizer now you are a predator yourself you're just as bad as the bad person who did
00:33:57.960whatever they did to you you've joined them so now we condemn them for what they did to you
00:34:04.720but we also condemn you because you're just like them in particular they're upset about the fact0.98
00:34:11.380that previously you know the prosecutors had suggested that pike was probably fabricating
00:34:15.080the details of her sob story, but many years later in a hearing, a prosecutor apparently gave
00:34:19.200her the benefit of the doubt because as he correctly pointed out, again, it doesn't matter
00:34:22.880whether it's true or not. It shouldn't affect her sentence in any way. Once you start carving
00:34:27.240pentagrams into people's chests and giggling with delight at the thought of butchering an innocent
00:34:31.920woman and showing off pieces of their skull as a personal souvenir, your personal problems are
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00:45:34.820tortured her in a remote location,0.82
00:45:37.160kept a piece of her skull as a trophy,0.99
00:45:39.720That wasn't even the last person she would try to kill. Her female sex is the only thing that ever made her execution controversial. Executions are rare in this country, much rarer than they should be or used to be, but there are still around 20 or 30 per year.1.00
00:45:57.680Last year, there were, I think, 50, over 50 executions carried out.