Everyone who will be in the room when Christa Pike is executed by lethal injection today

A woman walks toward a gurney as a state walks toward history. The clock is merciless, the glass is one-way, and no one is walking out unchanged. A mother waits to watch the state do what her nightmares already have, again and again. Mercy has been asked, denied, buried. The needle gleams, the leather waits, the si… Continues…