Tennessee Ignored The Abused Girl. Now It Wants To Execute The Woman She Became.

Tennessee is about to execute an abuse survivor it spent her whole life failing, and Governor Bill Lee says it’s happening next Wednesday.

Quick note: the apps bury videos that use the real word for what was done to her, so I’m saying “assaulted.” You know what I mean. The algorithm is more upset about the word than anyone who could have stopped it ever was about the act.

Her name is Christa Pike. She’d be the first woman Tennessee has executed since 1819, back when the state’s mental health system was a jar of lee...