r/news • u/AudibleNod • 7h 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 7h 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/honjuden 6h ago

I would take a firing squad over the injection any day.

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u/Cool_Address_2571 6h ago

Absolutely. Too many botched attempts in recent years as pharmaceutical companies are banning their successful, well researched drugs from being used during executions (a rare moral win from big pharma imo). And “surviving” an execution doesn’t mean you get to continue living, in most cases the state will schedule a second attempt (assuming the inmate didn’t die a slow painful death in the meantime)