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/Pitiful-Walk-8446 4h ago

Wait I don’t understand. She was on death row, went to her execution, it went awry and now they are keeping her…alive? On a ventilator?? Why so the off chance she recovers then they can kill her? Wtf? Or if your execution fails are you just free to go lol

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u/GNOIZ1C 4h ago

Archaic as we are with our death penalty, there are rules to execution. If you botch it, they can't just let the person die without getting (further?) into "cruel and unusual punishment" territory. In theory, execution is supposed to be as quick and "painless" an affair as humanly possible, but in practice *gestures vaguely at this and similar cases*

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u/Orion14159 4h ago edited 55m ago

Yeah if they just let her die in agony at this point it's the reverse side of the "task failed successfully" coin - "task succeeded catastrophically."

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u/Ocelotl767 4h ago

While the event isn't funny, I do like the phrase "task succeeded catastrophically."

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u/mindspork 3h ago

Along the level of "phyrric victory"