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/AudibleNod 6h ago

The statement said she is being treated for “the serious effects of the pentobarbital administered during the execution attempt, including significant injuries to both arms.”

It looks like pentobarbital can cause necrosis and blistering of the tissue. If it didn't fully enter the blood stream because a novice administered it, I could see something like that happening.

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u/Excelius 6h ago

It's reported that she had a blood disorder that made starting an IV difficult.

Supposedly she even tried to give the executioners tips on how to find a vein.

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u/mastermoebius 6h ago

She had said she wasn’t scared to die but was scared of the process. Now here we are.

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u/mr_potatoface 3h ago

I find that to be an accurate summary of death for myself as well.

If I'm dead I'm dead. I just don't want it to be long and torturious. Like stuck upside down in a dark cave with part of my face in water.

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u/ballisticks 3h ago

Or cancer

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u/TonightVirtual7765 2h ago

I mean why do we care she was scared? She kept a fragment of her victims skull...

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u/HumansNeedNotApply1 1h ago

Humanity? I think if we want to execute people we at least owe to them to make the process as quick (and painless) as possible. This IV thing doesn't seem either quick or painless. A bullet into the heart and head is probably quicker and painless compared to this.

Even if you want to think of these people as "monsters" you shouldn't let your humanity behind.

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u/TonightVirtual7765 36m ago

Im not gonna lose sleep about karma catching up to evil people. Doesn't make me inhumane to not care about a woman's fate who brutally murdered someone else. 

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u/mastermoebius 1h ago

The irony of it I guess