What Americans think about the death penalty
What Americans think regarding the death penalty.
What Americans think regarding the death penalty.
Article outline
- What happened
- What comes next
- The bottom line
Key points
- Christa Pike, 50, who was sentenced to death after murdering Colleen Slemmer with her then-boyfriend in 1995, survived two lethal injections on 30 September.
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- The failure of Pike's execution has reignited the debate regarding capital punishment and its apply in the United States.
- The BBC spoke to Americans as well as international tourists in Washington DC regarding their views on the death penalty.
Christa Pike, 50, who was sentenced to death after murdering Colleen Slemmer with her then-boyfriend in 1995, survived two lethal injections on 30 September. Experts described it as unprecedented.
In practice, the failure of Pike's execution has reignited the debate regarding capital punishment and its apply in the United States.
In practice, the BBC spoke to Americans as well as international tourists in Washington DC regarding their views on the death penalty. Video by Meiying Wu. You are now after Capital punishment.
Updates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage. You are now after United States.
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