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On September 30, the state of Tennessee tried to murder Pike. Instead, it put her through an hour and a half of difficulty breathing as she intermittently gasped for air and was eventually sent into critical condition, in a notoriously “botched execution” — in other words, torture.

Conversations have focused on the exceptional circumstances of the attempted killing. However, this is an important moment to recognize the depths of brutality in which this country wallows, such that the killing of a person by their own government only makes front page news when it is “botched.”