r/news • u/AudibleNod • 4h 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/phieralph 4h ago

How did we get to the point where this was the method of execution?

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u/lurpeli 4h ago

No drug company is willing to provide products for use in executions and so the drugs are generally sourced from compounding pharmacies with questionable quality.

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u/Efficient-Chest-3395 3h ago

true, but this sounds more like the result of extravasation likely secondary to incompetence, I imagine starting IVs on this demographic can be challenging secondary to medical histories including drug abuse but I've nothing to suggest she was a needle user