The New York’s post sensationalized coverage of the botched execution of Krista Pike is a grotesque display of tabloid cruelty, masquerading as journalism. Turning a profound human tragedy and a state sanctioned mechanical failure into a goal spectacle for ratings is beneath contempt. Pike entered this world a victim, enduring severe childhood trauma, and carrying the deep psychological scars of an 18 year-old whose life was defined by abuse long before he ever committed a crime. To mock her agony and the horrific reality of a state failing to execute her properly while leaving her suffering in a medical crisis exposes, a total bankruptcy of empathy and ethics. True justice is not found in a torture chamber, nor is it served by media outlets that strip away human dignity for a cheap headline. The POST should be ashamed of prioritizing sensationalism over basic human decency. nypost.com/2026/10/02/us-new…

We’ve all come to know that the death penalty does nothing to deter people from killing other people. Nor does solitary confinement teach those who suffer its effects, to be, nonviolent. What solitary confinement does do to people is to slowly drain their minds and soul of all that makes them human. I know, as I spent over 22 years in solitary confinement and from 2006 until 2012 or 2013. I was diagnosed as being semi-catatonic. I have no memory of those years. I could no longer endure the agonizing, crushing pain of being completely alone in an empty steel and concrete tomb. No one to talk to, to touch, to be touched, no one to love nor to be loved. For over two decades. My mind could no longer endure the emptiness, the aloneness the nothingness. My mind finally broke free from this reality we were all born to, and I became empty, nothing, in order to endure the void of emptiness and nothingness. Solitary confinement needs to be abolished as well as criminalized because literally, it is torture! It drives people insane and drives many to suicide in order to escape their agonized suffering. AND, solitary confinement in no way shape or form deters it sufferers from violence. In fact it can often cause acts of violence from its sufferers. They become mentally unstable, paranoid and their psychosis, which is caused by long term isolation developes into schizophrenia. There’s absolutely nothing positive about solitary confinement.