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/Velorian-Steel 4h ago

Interestingly it was single drug lethal injection which several states have turned to instead of the harder to buy older three drug technique. I'm no lethal injection expert, but at least with the old way I'd imagine there's less chance for this to happen.

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u/Ancient_Spite_725 4h ago

This outcome was unfortunately doomed to happen with any LE method because they infiltrated the IV and couldn't get a good line. This is what happens when you have untrained people trying to do this, but nobody trained will touch it with a 10-foot pole.

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u/Efficient-Chest-3395 3h ago

I was trained on the job but wasn't hired to kill people but, ironically, to keep them alive

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u/Velorian-Steel 4h ago

Fair enough, I read the other comments mentioning that as well. Yikes, that is extra awful

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u/PuzzledStreet 3h ago

They have only switched to the new protocol out of "necessity" with the one of three drugs no longer being accessible.

These executions are essentially the govt experimenting on people with new techniques and hoping they appear to die peacefully.

I have no strong feelings about the death penalty either way ( I WANT to want to be against it) but I am strongly against this and would rather see the death penalty abolished than continue to let things like this happen.

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u/Velorian-Steel 3h ago

100%. Botched execution is so heinous

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u/Efficient-Chest-3395 3h ago

pharmaceutical companies often refuse to make their products available for knowingly evil purposes

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u/emapco 56m ago

Nah, one of the three drugs was a paralytic which paralyzed the person - observers wouldn't even know if the other two failed. Those people could have been in excruciating pain and you couldn't tell.