Convicted Murderer Christa Pike Diagnosed With Rare Cancer

A court docket submitting has revealed that convicted assassin Christa Pike has a uncommon type of most cancers.

Nine months earlier than the 50-year-old’s botched execution in Tennessee happened, her attorneys made an try and warn that her analysis may lead to “unnecessary and super added pain and suffering, terror, and disgrace.”

The criticism, obtained by PEOPLE, famous her “platelet depend is considerably elevated, doubtless resulting from a uncommon type of blood most cancers referred to as myeloproliferative dysfunction’.

“A pulmonary edema is not simply painful or uncomfortable; it can create a sense of suffocating or drowning that has been likened by experts to the sensation intentionally induced by the practice of waterboarding—an unambiguous form of outright torture,” Pike’s lawyer mentioned within the submitting.

Her authorized staff additionally cited issues together with her veins and that new protocol meant fast cellphone entry throughout the execution wouldn’t be accessible.