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Christa Pike survived her execution. Now what?
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Did this land in spam or Promotions? Make sure to move us to your primary inbox and hit reply to say hi. It helps more than you'd think, and we always love hearing from you! This week's episodes are some of the heaviest we've ever recorded, so let's get to it. This week's episode - Cruel and Unusual: Christa Pike On September 30, the state of Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike. After two doses of pentobarbital, she was still breathing. It was the second time in five months that Tennessee couldn't carry out an execution, and the same doctor was in the room both times. Pike is now recovering in prison, still under a death sentence. And there's a question nobody has fully answered yet: can the state try again? This isn't about whether Christa Pike is guilty. What she did to 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer was horrific, and we haven't forgotten her. It's about what we expect from the government when it uses its most irreversible power, even on someone whose crime makes us sick.
Are you in any true crime groups on Facebook?! Or follow Reddit threads on true crime? Make sure to share This Feels Criminal and invite more friends to join us…because we all know it’s more fun over here! 😘 The Scholastic Book FairAfter that, we need something lighter. Something like… the best week of the entire school year. And since our kids are all experiencing the magic of the Scholastic Book Fair this week, it is even more appropriate to bring it up again. You knew it was coming the second they handed out that little newspaper catalog. You circled everything. You made a wish list. You took it home and made your case like a tiny lawyer. Then the day came. The library had transformed overnight. Those big metal cases unfolded like treasure chests, and suddenly the place smelled like new books and possibility. There was a very clear hierarchy of book fair kids. Some of us showed up with a crumpled five-dollar bill and had to make some hard choices. Then there was the kid who walked in with a check signed by their mom and the “amount” line left blank. We never forgot that kid, wonder what they're up to now? And let’s be honest, half of what we bought wasn’t even books. It was the posters, the scented erasers, the pencils with the giant toppers, and the pens with eight colors you had to click down one at a time. Somewhere in there we grabbed a Goosebumps, a Baby-Sitters Club, or the Guinness Book of World Records so we could say it counted. Fun fact: A friend of ours decided to break generational whatevers because she was only allowed to buy what her teacher Mom in the '90's came to the library and approved within a $5 limit, so she sent $30 with her Kindergartener (pre e-Wallet days, IYKYK) only for that Kindergartener to bring home 3 diaries. Kid must have had a lot of secrets. Hit reply and tell us: what was the one thing you HAD to have from the book fair? Bonus points if it wasn’t a book. 📚✏️ TL; DRSkipped to the bottom? No judgement. here's the skinny:
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Most newsletters are… fine. Ours is where the fun continues after the episode ends. When you join the This Feels Criminal newsletter, you’ll get the stories, updates, and behind-the-scenes moments we can’t always fit into the podcast, delivered straight to your inbox. Think of it as the after-hours version of the show.
Did this land in spam or Promotions? Make sure to move us to your primary inbox and hit reply to say hi. It helps more than you'd think, and we always love hearing from you! This week's case is one a lot of you have been asking about since Hulu's new documentary dropped, so we're getting right to it. This week: Swipe Right on the Devil On November 15, 2017, 24-year-old Sydney Loofe sent her friends a Snapchat: "Ready for my date." She'd met a woman on Tinder named Audrey. Her friends had seen...
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