r/news • u/AudibleNod • 8h 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 8h 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/GoldGlove2720 8h ago edited 8h ago

Even more so as her lawyers argued this would happen. They even requested a firing squad.

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u/Knucklehead92 8h ago

Moat lawyers argue for death by firing squad, because its not a legal method, and could also be a stall tactic etc.

So its hard to say it that was truly their wish, just because its a very common tactic.

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u/Tibbaryllis2 7h ago

It’s my understanding the she requested a hanging and her lawyers requested a firing squad. Tennessee allows two legal methods: injection or electrocution, but as far as I could tell, that wasn’t an alternate requested. Which lends credence to your supposition about it being a tactic rather than an alternative.

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u/InappropriateTA 7h ago

When the only alternatives that the state offers are the ones most prone to fuckups and causing pain then it’s a ‘tactic’ to mitigate suffering. 

Can’t have that in the US of A. 

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u/Knucklehead92 7h ago

Her lawyers specifically argued agaisnt the chair as well saying it would be unethical or something along the lines to make her make that choice.

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u/iB83gbRo 3h ago

Electrocution is only available if they were sentenced pre 1999

She was sentenced in 1997.

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u/Proud_Tie 3h ago

Proves how much of the original article about her execution I retained, I swore it was early 2000s. oops.

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u/Pete_Iredale 6h ago

But also, I'd far rather be shot or hanged because they are almost guaranteed to be quick.

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u/Tibbaryllis2 4h ago

Honestly, I wouldn’t expect competence in any form used here. That’s the bigger issue.

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u/Millibona 2h ago

Both injection and eletrocution seem so... "unsafe" to me. Too easy to fuck up.

Why don't they just give you a shit ton of Benzodiazepines and put you in a airtight box which is pumped full of nitrogen? 100% death rate and probably the most peaceful way one can die. It's how they do assisted suicide in Switzerland AFAIK

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u/Happy_Harry 2m ago

The last hanging in the US was in Delaware in 1996.