Alive After the Needle

This got my attention on Wednesday.

I am not for the death penalty. I also do not need a sermon to see what Christa Pike did in Knoxville in 1995. Those two things can sit in the same paragraph.

Tennessee tried to execute her at Riverbend. Courts spent the day opening and closing the door. The Sixth Circuit paused the warrant about an hour before the 10 a.m. time. The Supreme Court lifted that stay around 5:50 p.m. The state then ran the protocol late. Two syringes of pentobarbital. Witnesses heard her snoring with her mouth open. The curtains closed, opened, closed again. An ambulance left the prison. Governor Bill Lee froze the rest of the 2026 calendar and ordered a review. As I write this, she is alive.

If you never heard of the case, here is the short version. I asked Grok to summarize the crime.

ABL: Expelled TENN lawmaker fake preacher voice EXPOSED

 

[VIDEO] How does someone like State Rep. Justin Pearson go from a clean cut college student and seeming more like a moderate when running for a college SGA position to someone seemingly radical wearing a real afro and speaking like an old school preacher while not using decorum fitting of his elected position? Could it be that he's doing nothing more than playing a role to get his foot in the door?

I'm not really that mad at him. Politicians have to play a role to get elected most of the time, however, one question worth asking if he has any real core values? Because if he doesn't and the issue that got him expelled from the TN state legislature over gun control legislation is something he really doesn't care about does it just expose that he's really fake.

ABC 7 Chicago: What we know about Nashville shooter

 

[VIDEO] I've only been clued into this story during most of this day and will leave out some of the reporting I heard. What I know is that another troubled human being went to a place and started shooting and killed people. Of course this troubled human being was dealt with fatally by police officers.

I could bring up their sexual orientation or gender identity and that's not important. What's important is their state of mind. This person was disturbed to kill not only three adult staff members at this school, she also killed three children. That is disturbing and more disturbing is that this person knew they were going to die doing this.

I ache for the families of the deceased and the children who never will be able to live their lives into adulthood. And the course that this person had undertook only shows how troubled they are. I wish there was an easy answer to stop people like this from harming others.

And no more grandstanding about guns. I've had enough this is not a gun issue it's a serious people/mental health issue.