‘This Is Just Driving Me Crazy!’ View’s Ana Navarro Vents Over Christa Pike Being ‘Treated’ as a ‘Victim’ After Botched Execution

The View’s Ana Navarro blasted people turning convicted murderer Christa Pike into a “victim” following her botched execution in Tennessee.

On Friday’s The View, the hosts were mostly in agreement about the Pike case.

Whoopi Goldberg opened the segment by making sure to note the name of Pike’s victim, Colleen Slemmer, a classmate of Pike’s.

Pike was 18 when she and two other teens, including her 17-year-old boyfriend, tortured and killed Slemmer, carving a pentagram into Slemmer’s chest as they crushed her skull.

Pike, a child rape victim who grew up in an abusive environment, was convicted of first-degree murder in 1996 and subsequently sentenced to death row, the youngest woman to be sentenced to death row.

Slemmer’s mother, May Martinez, had traveled to Nashville to witness the now-50-year-old Pike’s execution.

“Me personally, I think you should ask the mother what should happen now. I think they should ask her because, you know, they tortured her daughter and there’s a reason she was where she was, but I think it’s, it’s not a question that the state should answer,” Goldberg said on Friday.

Navarro said she totally agreed Slemmer’s family should have a say in how Pike’s case moves forward and she vented about people turning Pike into a “victim:”

I fully agree with you and I’m glad that every time we have talked about this you have led with mentioning the true victim’s name, Colleen Slemmer, and her mother, May Martinez, because, you know, this is just driving me crazy.

It feels like all of a sudden the woman who tortured the 18-year-old and killed the 18-year-old girl has now become the victim.

I am outraged at the state that couldn’t get this one thing right after 31 years, that has made this family that has suffered so much…the worst loss that you could possibly suffer, has waited for over three decades, and now have to go through this and see the assassin, the convicted killer, treated as if she was the victim in this case.

So I’m with you. I think the victim’s family needs to lead.

Sunny Hostin ended up dissenting from the rest of the table slightly, saying she doesn’t believe in capital punishment due to her Catholic religion and she believes life imprisonment would be the appropriate sentence for Pike.

“While what she did is horribly heinous, her boyfriend that was 17 at the time is in prison for the rest of his life and I think life imprisonment would be appropriate right now at this time,” she said.

Randy Spivey, one of the lawyers representing Pike, said this week that Pike is conscious, but remains confused about her situation since the failed execution. A judge has ordered evidence related to the execution attempt be preserved as the debate continues about whether the state will go forward with another execution. Pike survived after being injected with two doses of pentobarbital.

“She cannot move either of her arms, both of her arms and hands are tremendously swollen, and we do not know what, if any, function she will regain in her arms. But we do know that there is a long road ahead,” Spivey said about his client’s current condition.

Watch above via ABC.

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