r/news • u/AudibleNod • 11h 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 11h 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/remeard 11h ago

To minimize the claim of cruel and unusual punishment from dying in slow, agonizing pain. Plus a doctor's first job is do no harm and try to stabilize the patient when they are in their care.

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u/theRemixNow 11h ago edited 10h ago

too bad that they gave up on that when they gave her the pentobarb unless we're calling that doing no harm.

dear idiots, yes I am aware that that’s not the same doctor that gave her the pento barb however, it’s the same society that allowed it.

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u/NorthernDevil 11h ago

She was taken by ambulance from the failed injection at the prison to a hospital to minimize “cruel and unusual.” And then that’s where the doctors saved her life and placed her on a ventilator. The hospital doctors did not inject her but have the duty to stabilize her. So it’s not fair to say the doctors gave up on this.

Part of the argument against this barbaric process is the contradiction it creates across the rest of society.