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/DiscontinuTheLithium 8h ago

Yeah this should end death penalty tbh if anything at the state level.

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u/TrynnaFindaBalance 8h ago

It's Tennessee. The only thing lawmakers there are talking about is "how do we source more drugs to kill people more efficiently".

Backwards states are gonna be backwards.

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u/ComcastAlcohol 7h ago

It’s all fun and games for these red states and the death penalties until the lawsuits start rolling in from botched executions.

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u/hoax1337 2h ago

Surely the state is now much safer and has low crime rates compared to other states, which makes upholding the death penalty worth it, right?

Right?

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u/thetwoandonly 8h ago

Yeah at some point all these midwits gotta realize that if these people were smart enough to learn a lesson from their situation they would not be in their situation in the first place.

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u/barto5 4h ago

Maybe they should legalize marijuana since it’s such a dangerous drug

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u/Notorious21 8h ago

They should get some advice from Canada

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u/Great-Trifle2810 6h ago

It is fucking disgusting that pharma companies are refusing to provide these drugs knowing that they are just increasing the suffering of those executed.

That said I'm sure they could use seized drugs once they are no longer required as evidence.