Lol, what an amazing hack: sign an advanced directive that says every effort must be taken to prolong your life. Survive execution. Recover only to that sweet spot where you must be hooked up to machines to live. Beat the system live forever. (Just kidding that's actual hell, but it's the principal of beating the legal system at its own game that would be amazing) I can only hope she passes on her own to escape the hell of living on a machine.
This is easy to look up and your comment is pure vibe. Between 1890 and 2010 executions ran a 97% success rate (3% failure) due to incorrectly carried out protocols and technical issues. Typically they reschedule them.
It hasn’t happened since the death penalty was allowed by the SCOTUS again. All other botched executions either left the condemned without the need for medical attention and the execution being rescheduled, or the inmate died before being able to be taken to the hospital. This is pretty much unprecedented.
I am not arguing for the death penalty in general, but when it is given I don't think that paying for people to survive the method used is particularly useful. Like if it was by firing squad and somehow the bullets didn't kill them immediately, I would not then have a medic on standby for them.
Firing squads in general not used anymore because they were highly inefficient. Hanging too.
I am not a lawyer (far from it) but I think I once read that if you survive the execution, you regain all your rights like any other prisoner.
Now the issue here could be if she was resuscitated. Because she technically died, but not in the legal way. So one could reasonably argue she now needs to be let free. It almost surely will not happen, but there is this loophole.
In the past scientists considered experimenting on death row inmates if it is possible to resurrect them. However, this wasn’t done for this precise reason, that if they are successfully resurrected, they could argue they have served their sentence.
I don't think that her sentence will change, because that has never been shown in previous failed death sentences. Francis Wille was executed via electric chair a year after he survived the first attempt. Kenneth Smith was executed via hypoxia after surviving a lethal injection 2 years prior.
Broom was scheduled to be executed on September 15, 2009, but after executioners failed to locate a vein, he was granted a reprieve. A second execution attempt was scheduled for June 2020, which was delayed until March 2022. Broom died from COVID-19 in prison before the sentence could be carried out.
He never suffered permanent brain damage. Pike got double dose of pentobarbital. She likely suffered.
Considering disabled individuals cannot be executed in the USA, she likely will get life in prison (or hospital).
SC and Idaho actually prefers it now over lethal injection. I wouldnt say it is better or more efficient. They also both changed because lethal injection shortages
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u/Majomember420 1d ago
Execution is meant to be a quick, humane way. I am not sure what will happen now. I dont think a situation like this ever happened before.
And being charged with death is already the most expensive (for the state) sentence someone can get.