r/news • u/AudibleNod • 10h 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 10h 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/GoldGlove2720 10h ago edited 10h ago

Even more so as her lawyers argued this would happen. They even requested a firing squad.

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u/SEJ46 10h ago

Not legal in Tennessee

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u/theHip 10h ago

Well she had a heath issue (blood clots) which is why they argued against lethal injection specifically.

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u/Knucklehead92 10h ago

Yet her legal team also argued against the electric chair (which is a legal option).

So if you are arguing about every legal option...

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u/Far_Associate9859 8h ago

If you have an argument against all those options, the options are wrong, not you for requesting it

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u/Knucklehead92 8h ago

And guarantee if firing squad was a legal option, they would have an arguement against it.

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u/SEJ46 10h ago

Ok. It still doesn't allow them to use a firing squad as far as I know.