On the record · Updated October 3, 2026
Director, Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide
1 things Sandra Babcock said, verbatim, on October 3, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the questions at issue, with who supported, disputed, or qualified each one.
Positions
Disputes
Babcock says Pike should have never been sentenced to death, because she was an “immature 18-year-old” with a history of severe childhood and sexual trauma
Truthout Christa Pike survives two lethal doses and is now on a ventilator ›
Others on this question
Martinez told People Magazine she still wants to see her daughter's killer dead because she has never apologized.
People, on the record
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