Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings
Oct 1, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 29 segments
In this “Emergency Drop”, Jim Chapman and Kelly Jennings discuss the breaking news regarding the botched execution of Christa Pike and give you up to the minute details!
Uh, and it was actually set for, uh, 10:00 AM originally, but the appeals court for the Sixth Cir- Circuit actually issued a temporary stay, and the reason for that was they wanted to see if Pike's childhood history of sex abuse was enough to stop the execution.
Look, these defense teams, they all, th- they're grasping at straws at this point.
Uh, and so at, at that point it goes to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court is either gonna say, "Yes, we're gonna allow it to go on," or, "No, we're not.
On our original drop, I was like, "What the hell, man? It's been 20 years, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Uh, they should've had this in order by now." And while I still stand on that statement, I got to thinking about it more when I went home last night, and I said to myself, "Well, in the spirit of due diligence, I guess th- I guess I get it," m- more than what I said when we first originally recorded.
Because you are putting someone to death, and, um, I would say that if, if they are raising all of this and it was completely ignored, then they still have the argument of, "Oh, we tried to raise this, you know, and y'all ignored it, blah, blah, blah." Well, by them doing that temporary stay that early in the morning, then it did give them time to think it over, come back, because as long as it was done by midnight-
They say, uh, "No, we're gonna let it go on." And it was actually a six to three vote, uh, in favor of continuing on with that execution.
Uh, and it was actually set for, uh, 10:00 AM originally, but the appeals court for the Sixth Cir- Circuit actually issued a temporary stay, and the reason for that was they wanted to see if Pike's childhood history of sex abuse was enough to stop the execution.
Look, these defense teams, they all, th- they're grasping at straws at this point.
Uh, and so at, at that point it goes to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court is either gonna say, "Yes, we're gonna allow it to go on," or, "No, we're not.
On our original drop, I was like, "What the hell, man? It's been 20 years, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Uh, they should've had this in order by now." And while I still stand on that statement, I got to thinking about it more when I went home last night, and I said to myself, "Well, in the spirit of due diligence, I guess th- I guess I get it," m- more than what I said when we first originally recorded.
Because you are putting someone to death, and, um, I would say that if, if they are raising all of this and it was completely ignored, then they still have the argument of, "Oh, we tried to raise this, you know, and y'all ignored it, blah, blah, blah." Well, by them doing that temporary stay that early in the morning, then it did give them time to think it over, come back, because as long as it was done by midnight-
They say, uh, "No, we're gonna let it go on." And it was actually a six to three vote, uh, in favor of continuing on with that execution.
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