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Christa Pike and the incomplete justice of death

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Why do we kill? It’s a question unlikely to ever be answered to any degree of satisfaction, but one I found myself asking the other day after hearing about the botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike. In reading about the story, I learned that Pike and I are almost the same age.

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    Why do we kill? It’s a question unlikely to ever be answered to any degree of satisfaction, but one I found myself asking the other day after hearing about the botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike. In reading about the story, I learned that Pike and I are almost the same age.

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