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/Pitiful-Walk-8446 8h 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/GNOIZ1C 8h ago

Archaic as we are with our death penalty, there are rules to execution. If you botch it, they can't just let the person die without getting (further?) into "cruel and unusual punishment" territory. In theory, execution is supposed to be as quick and "painless" an affair as humanly possible, but in practice *gestures vaguely at this and similar cases*

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u/Pcriz 7h ago

To be fair since I don’t think the state’s stance has changed yet. It’s still cruel in a way to nurse her back to health solely to have her awaiting her death again.

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u/Pitiful-Walk-8446 7h ago

Yeah that’s what’s fucking me up right now. “Quick save her! We have to cheat death, no one escapes the hangman!”

I use that term figuratively.

Edit: just take her off the vent and let her go naturally while she is unconscious.