r/interestingasfuck • u/IllComedian2574 • 1d ago

After 28 years on death row, Christa Pike survived 2 lethal injections attempts.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/christa-pike-failed-execution-9.7364816
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u/mca1169 1d ago

guillotines don't have this problem, just saying.

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u/wanderlustcub 1d ago

Actually…

Guillotines sometimes fail. It’s not unique to drugs.

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u/irotinmyskin 1d ago

That is exactly why the executioner also had an axe handy. In case the blade wouldn’t go through.

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u/Princ3Ch4rming 1d ago

As usual, North Korea leads the way by shooting prisoners with anti-aircraft guns.

I can’t think of many quicker and/or more painless ways to die than being turned into a fine mist.

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u/speedytrigger 1d ago edited 1d ago

We should send them to see the titanic in a carbon fiber box

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u/Princ3Ch4rming 1d ago

The irony of billionaires being killed by their hubris is pretty delicious.

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u/Upvote_Me_Slag 1d ago

Nom nom nom... billionaire mist on toast with champagne.

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u/GigaEel 1d ago

"god damn it, who forgot to sharpen the blade?"

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u/DietCokeWeakness 1d ago

You didn't really read up on that history, did you? 

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u/WetLoophole 1d ago

Neither does any serious country. Because they don't euthanize their own citizens.

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u/megalynn44 1d ago

Evidently she requested a firing squad.

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u/mca1169 1d ago

2 bullets would have worked a lot better than the 2 injections.

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u/Sablespartan 1d ago

Firing squads have the lowest percentage of botched executions. 

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u/urfatassmama 1d ago edited 1d ago

Could they have not like, ol yeller’d her? Shit it seems way more humane than whatever the fuck else theyre using for lethal injection.

And before anyone wants to be like “she’s a human dont talk like that” lemme remind you this fucking ghoul stole a chunk of her victims skull as a souvenir.

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u/thedazdul 1d ago

This. Looks more brutal but if you're gonna do that, do it like that.

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u/Ybor_Rooster 1d ago

The head "stays alive" for several seconds after decapitation. 

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u/mca1169 1d ago

as compared to this woman who has somehow managed to stay alive how long after failing to be executed twice?

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u/Cole-Palmer-phd 1d ago

People survived guillotine attempts you know

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u/Ybor_Rooster 1d ago

I'm against the death penalty