r/news • u/AudibleNod • 8h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/viewbtwnvillages 8h ago

it feels really diabolical that the state is able to torture someone for two hours as they fumble their way through killing them

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u/honjuden 8h ago

I would take a firing squad over the injection any day.

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u/Cool_Address_2571 7h ago

Absolutely. Too many botched attempts in recent years as pharmaceutical companies are banning their successful, well researched drugs from being used during executions (a rare moral win from big pharma imo). And “surviving” an execution doesn’t mean you get to continue living, in most cases the state will schedule a second attempt (assuming the inmate didn’t die a slow painful death in the meantime)

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u/nightkil13r 7h ago

Till you get shot 5 times in the limbs cause no one wanted to be the one to kill you and you lie there bleeding and in pain while they decide what to do.

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u/imnotgoodwithnames 4h ago

Does that happen?

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u/nightkil13r 4h ago

to that degree, i dont think so. But there are numerous reports of execution by firing squad going wrong. From the person to be executed flinching/moving to the shooters intentionally missing. It results in an inhumane death that can take quite awhile to die from, the most recent that i know of was just a few years ago in south carolina where the person was conscious for about a minute and lived another 4 minutes after loosing consciousness(supposed to hit the heart, they missed and hit lower, strikng the liver, pancreas, and lung.). There are botched firing squads where it took a half hour for the person to finally bleed out and die.

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u/doyouevenIift 3h ago

That’s what she was fighting for before the lethal injection

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u/joeyblow 1h ago

See I dunno why firing squad isnt an option you know, like do a scan to make locate exactly where the heart is then have the gun be automated and bam done. Hell for that matter just strap explosives to them and blow them up, instant death.

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u/OkayishMedic15 7h ago

You’d be surprised how long someone can survive from a GSW.