Christa Pike & Nidal Hasan: Execute or Not? | Crime Talk

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 opposition.

Also on today's Crime Talk: the Cornell 7 investigation faces a new legal fight involving New York Attorney General Letitia James; new information emerges involving Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Ken Urker; and actress Selma Blair is arrested following an alleged incident aboard a Delta flight.

Today on Crime Talk:

• Christa Pike survives Tennessee's execution attempt
• Could the state legally try to execute Pike again?
• Nidal Hasan faces execution by firing squad
• The fight over livestreaming Hasan's execution
• New developments in the Cornell 7 case
• Gypsy Rose and Ken Urker revelations
• Selma Blair arrested after alleged flight incident
• Legal History, Legal Quote of the Day and Dumb Criminal of the Day

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