They were intended as encouraging words of farewell. Uttered as a kind of salve – if any could exist – to the looming horror ahead. ‘In October, I’m coming back to visit you,’ said Marcy Wilson, as she sat in a small visiting room in the maximum-security confines of the Debra K Johnson rehabilitation centre, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Sitting in the room with Marcy, a 60-year-old mother, was Christa Pike, a convicted killer who, four days later, was scheduled to become the first woman to be executed in the state of Tennessee in more than 200 years.
Marcy, who’d become one of
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