Death sentence called into question amid Christa Pike’s blundered execution
Sky News AustraliaUS Criminal Defence Attorney Andrea Lyon weighs in on the death sentence debate, as questions over Christa Pike’s fate continue. “There’s conversations about whether we really need the death penalty or not,” Ms Lyon told News24. “It’s supposed to be a deterrent … when there were public hangings in England, that’s when crime went up the most. “I think that if people really understood what the death penalty is and isn’t, what it does and can’t do … the support for it would lessen even more.”