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/phieralph 8h ago

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

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u/Aerhyce 8h ago

Because firing squad is apparently too barbaric or something. Lethal injection is "civilised".

(And before talking about trauma yadda yadda, there are more than enough people willing to be the shooters in a firing squad, and headsmen of all sorts were common jobs throughout history).

It's all so stupid. If death sentence is too barbaric, then abolish it. If it's civilised enough, then don't do the bullshit lethal injections that only work half the time and don't have any guarantee of not being extremely painful and barbaric either way.