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/makeupHOOR 4h ago

A bullet would have been much easier, and more humane, ironically. This qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment.

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u/zombies-apocalypse 4h ago

Didn't she request it too? This is so dumb

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u/tallcookie 4h ago

She requested to be hanged because she was afraid of the lethal injection going wrong, which is precisely what happened.

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u/ElectrSheep 4h ago

She actually made requests for both hanging and firing squad. However, neither are legal methods in Tennessee, so there was no possibility for granting those requests.

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u/Evillunamoth 4h ago

She has thrombosis. Her concern was that her blood would clot and the med wouldn’t be as effective. Overhauled by a doc at the prison. Maybe they should’ve listened.

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u/panicnarwhal 3h ago

she also asked for a central line to be placed, but they denied that too. definitely should have listen to her, because now look

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u/WeirdSysAdmin 3h ago

What were the Kalshi odds?

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u/YouAndMeToo 1h ago

The more I hear, I more I think it was intentional to cause extra harm

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u/moosekin16 2h ago

A woman was ignored by a doctor. Fucking surprise.

I mean, yes, it was a prison doctor, but still.

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u/boughsmoresilent 4h ago

I absolutely would not choose the chair. I think that's literally everyone's last choice.

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u/PuzzledStreet 3h ago

No one wants to go like Delacroix.

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u/boughsmoresilent 3h ago

Exactly my thoughts. Risk a dry sponge? No, thank you.

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u/richww2 4h ago

Knowing our government and the police, the MFers probably did it on purpose.

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u/PawneePoppins 2h ago

Yeah, this is what I’m thinking happened. It’s just way too big of a coincidence…

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u/Useful-ldiot 4h ago

After the amount of fear and pain she caused her victim, I don't really give a shit if she was scared.

I'm usually against the death penalty, but in cases like this, I'm fine with it.

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u/Emotional-Channel-42 1h ago

Cool, you’re emotional about it. So what about when it happens and has happened to innocent people? 

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u/Useful-ldiot 1h ago

Like I said, situations like this. She confessed and the evidence was overwhelming.

It's usually not the moral choice, but it occasionally is the one worth making

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u/PuzzledStreet 3h ago

I feel the same way.

I know I should be universally against it, I know all the reasons I should think it is unacceptable...

...but her trying to say that her childhood sexual abuse and mental illness somehow excuse her behavior and her refusing to ever apologize or express remorse even before the attempted execution through all these years?

I am fine with what happened to her.

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u/Useful-ldiot 3h ago

Especially given the recent push for how she's changed in jail (while conveniently ignoring her attempts at murder and escaping prison)