Graphic simulation shows what the last 24 hours of death row prisoners looks like ahead of Christa Pike’s expected execution today

the final hours unfold with a cold, rehearsed precision. Pike, once an 18-year-old drifter who helped torture and kill fellow student Colleen Slemmer, is now a 50-year-old woman watched around the clock, every movement logged. Her lawyers’ desperate bid for clemency has failed; the governor has turned her away. Her last requests are reduced to details continue reading …