Christa Pike has only the left to blame for her execution trauma

“Capital punishment presents moral questions that philosophers, theologians, and statesmen have grappled with for millennia,” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in 2015 — so the Constitution’s Framers “handled it the same way they handled many other controversial issues: they left it to the People to decide.”The late legal titan adduced the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee that no person shall be “deprived of life ..

.without due process of law” to offer a proclamation so intuitive that any middle schooler ought to grasp it: “It is impossible to hold unconstitutional that which the Constitution explicitly contemplates.”Progressive elites, who have no problem with homicide when victims are unborn children or born children of mothers pleading “postpartum psychosis,” no longer hold the death penalty for society’s worst offenders in high regard.But those of an older and wiser mentality continue to dispense the ultimate punishment for the most hardened and impenitent criminals.That’s why Tennessee sentenced Pike to death.At the age of 18, Pike and her boyfriend lured a 19-year-old classmate into the Knoxville woods and beat, slashed and mutilated her.After a half-hour of torture, Pike killed the classmate by crushing her skull with a slab of asphalt.Over three decades later, when Tennessee finally attempted to kill Pike, the state’s method of choice was lethal injection.Amazingly, Tennessee failed.Today, Pike is “up and walking” in the hospital.She’s a bit mentally “foggy,” according to her lawyers, but don’t pity her too much.Pike’s botched execution is an astounding embarrassment for the state of Tennessee.But the only reason there are botched executions today is because of the left’s decades-long legal crusade to intentionally throw sand in the gears of the execution process — over the objection of a majority of Americans, who have long favored capital punishment.In the 1960s, activist NAACP lawyers launched a cam...