Christa Pike & Nidal Hasan: Execute or Not? | Crime Talk
Published: October 12, 2026
Duration: 29:33
Execute or not? Two very different death penalty cases are raising major questions about capital punishment in America.
Christa Pike is back in prison after surviving Tennessee's failed lethal injection attempt. With execution drugs actually administered and Pike still alive, her case now raises an extraordinary legal question: could Tennessee constitutionally attempt to execute her again?
Meanwhile, former Army Major Nidal Hasan, convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting, is scheduled to face a firing squad. But another controversy is developing around plans to potentially livestream the military execution, with growing political, legal and international...