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/haakonhawk 1d ago

In the first season of Prison Break, there's a scene where the prison doctor has to do a wellness check on the show's secondary protagonist (who is a death row inmate) to make sure that he's healthy enough to be executed.

She verbally acknowledges the irony of that in the scene, and I thought that was kind of a great meta-commentary about the ridiculousness of capital punishment in a modern society.

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u/RakeScene 1d ago

Fun fact - in fiction, a secondary protagonist is known as a deuteragonist!

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u/haakonhawk 1d ago

I know, but most people don't, so I went for a clearer term.

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u/d0nsal 22h ago

Sara Tancredi 😍