Christina Marie Riggs

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Christina Marie Riggs (September 2, 1971 – May 2, 2000) was an American convicted murderer and a former licensed practical nurse, who was executed in Varner, Arkansas for the 1997 murders of her two children, Justin Dalton Thomas (1992 - 1997), age 5, and Shelby Alexis Riggs (1994-1997), age 2. On November 4, 1997, Riggs sedated her children and planned to kill them with an injection of drugs she had obtained from her workplace. After the injection did not kill her son, she smothered both children to death and then attempted to die by suicide. Defense attorneys initially stated that Riggs suffered from post‑traumatic stress disorder after working as medical first responder to 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing, however the Veterans Administration Hospital where she was employed from 1990 to 1995, confirmed that Riggs was not dispatched to the scene. Her attorneys did not present this as a defense at trial. Riggs waived her right to appeal and volunteered execution, which was carried out by lethal...

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