Christa Pike and Sandra Birchmore: Why Nothing Stopped It

The full session with defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis covers two cases and four distinct fights.

Christa Pike's lawyers spent 2026 telling Tennessee courts that the state's lethal injection protocol would fail on her, naming thrombocytosis and small veins in a January filing and proposing an alternative needle. Tennessee's position was that her veins were reliably accessible. On September 30 she took two doses of pentobarbital and survived with significant injuries to both arms. One of her attorneys, Randy Spivey, has said the failure was both foreseeable and foreseen. On October 7 a Chancery Court judge reopened the case and ordered the state to preserve the needles, drugs, lot numbers, logs, emails and encrypted messages from that night.

In Boston, Matthew Farwell's federal trial opened with jury selection on October 6. Prosecutors say he strangled Sandra Birchmore on February 1, 2021 to keep her quiet, twelve days after a friend of hers reported him to the Stoughton Police Department. DNA testing excluded Farwell as the father of her unborn son, and prosecutors say his messages show he believed he was.

Faddis and Tony Brueski take both sides of each case, including what the defense does with a death certificate that still reads undetermined.

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