CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY OCTOBER 5, 2026
TENNESSEE BOTCHED ANOTHER EXECUTION LAST WEEK AS IT TRIED TO PUT TO DEATH CHRISTA PIKE. PIKE HAD SPENT 30 YEARS ON DEATH ROW. IN 1995, PIKE AND A GROUP OF FRIENDS LURED A JOB CORPS CLASSMATE TO AN ISOLATED LOCATION IN KNOXVILLE WHERE THEY TORTURED AND MURDERED HER IN A FIT OF JELOUSY. PIKE BELIEVED THE VICTIM, COLLEEN STEMMER, WAS TRYING TO STEAL HER BOYFRIEND. I WILL SPARE YOU DETAILS OF THE MURDER.
IT IS MORE THAN IRONIC THAT PIKE WAS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL WHERE EFFORTS WERE MADE TO SAVE HER LIFE WHILE ABORTIONS CONTINUE AS USUAL. AT THIS WRITING PIKE WAS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. TENNESSEE GOVERNOR BILL LEE HAS HALTED ALL EXECUTIONS UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR.
TENNESSEE REPUBLICAN SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN WANTS TO BRING BACK THE ELECTRIC CHAIR. ANTI-DEATH PENALTY GROUPS SAY THE BOTCHED EXECUTION WAS CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT IN VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND SHOULD BE ENDED.
THE VALUE OF INNOCENT HUMAN LIFE HAS NEARLY EVAPORATED IN OUR POST CHRISTIAN, POST MODERN ERA. THAT THE STATE FAILED TO CARRYOUT THE COURT’S VERDICT DOES NOT MEAN THE DEATH PENALTY SHOULD BE ENDED. IT MEANS THE VALUE OF INNOCENT HUMAN LIFE MUST BE RESTORED. AND THAT MEANS EXECUTING MURDERERS. I’M CAL THOMAS.
