{"id":100879,"date":"2026-10-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=100879"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:00:00","slug":"no-more-execution-attempts-on-christa-pike-un-rights-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=100879","title":{"rendered":"No more execution attempts on Christa Pike: UN rights chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3><strong>What you need to know<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ms. Pike was denied clemency and, one hour before her execution, a court halted it then lifted the stay<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>She was twice injected with lethal drugs and survived<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Calls are growing for authorities to commute Ms. Pike\u2019s death sentence<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe prolonged suffering \u2013 physical and mental \u2013 arising from multiple failed execution attempts is abhorrent and cruel,\u201d Volker T\u00fcrk said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The UN rights chief pointed to unresolved questions surrounding Ms. Pike\u2019s fair trial, saying they raised additional concerns about proceeding with another execution attempt.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes amid what the UN office described as an increase in the number of executions in the United States, with the Pike case renewing attention to the human rights implications of capital punishment in the country, including safeguards for fair trials and the treatment of people subjected to repeated execution attempts.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><strong>\u2018No place in any society\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Mr. T\u00fcrk reiterated the UN\u2019s opposition to capital punishment, stating that \u201cthe death penalty has no place in any society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nine UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts echoed those calls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state of Tennessee must immediately and irrevocably end this cruelty by commuting Christa Pike\u2019s death sentence,\u201d the experts said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot one but two botched execution attempts are a flagrant breach of the prohibition of torture and arbitrary deprivation of life and show why [the] death penalty should be prohibited everywhere,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rights experts are appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, are mandated to monitor and report on specific thematic issues or country situations, are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/story\/2026\/10\/1168504\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you need to know Ms. Pike was denied clemency and, one hour before her execution,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2203,367,12124,3748,12125,187],"class_list":["post-100879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","tag-attempts","tag-chief","tag-christa","tag-execution","tag-pike","tag-rights"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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