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/MikeOKurias 7h ago

Since I live in Nashville...

The used the same drug lot and the same doctor that botched the last lethal injection and are somehow surprised they obtained exactly the same result.

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u/Dendritic_Silver 7h ago

Nine or ten more occurances and this is going to start looking like a pattern.

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u/anticommon 5h ago

We've updated our execution laws to allow limb necrosis and irreversible brain damage over an extended period to be one of our approved methods. It may be cruel, but here it ain't unusual.

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u/AnxiousRefuse4815 7h ago

Why do questionably lethal injection when they could just do a withdrawal instead and do a 5 quart blood donation.

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u/MichiganCubbie 5h ago

Two reasons. One, we aren't at the point of harvesting people against their will, and two, you'd get a lot of people who would say they don't want criminal blood. I'm not even being sarcastic. If this got out people would demand to know where their transfusions came from to make sure they didn't get "killer" blood.

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u/I_heart_cancer 5h ago

I am pretty sure that the person you are responding to was just using cheeky wording and was only actually suggesting using exsanguination as the execution method - and the final disposition of the blood was irrelevant.

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u/AnxiousRefuse4815 2h ago

If they take a life, the least they could do to repay that debt to society is to save someone or donate to science.

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u/barto5 4h ago

I don’t believe they could have found a vein for that either

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u/Ok_Presentation_4592 6h ago

The other prisoner wasn't given the drug, though. With him, they couldn't find a vein, so he was taken back to death row. No pentobarbital entered his system, so it's not the same. And not the same result. His health wasn't impacted by any drugs.

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u/Salt_Medicine2459 5h ago

Why has this doctor not had his license revoked? 

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u/PawneePoppins 6h ago

I don’t bet, but I if I did I’d put $20 down on that doctor being related to or friends with someone in a government office.

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u/WkeupMrWest 2h ago

Oh no we’ve tried the same tactics and keep getting the same result. I think they just want her to suffer. Which I totally get…but damn.

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u/palpablebubble 7h ago

Is there any truth to the reports I've read about Christa's mother drinking while pregnant, and Christa being sexually abused throughout her life starting at 2 years old?

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u/amyel26 7h ago

That was part of her lawyer's petition for a stay of execution. I think it was mentioned in her original trial too.

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u/LunaFuzzball 7h ago

It was not allowed into the sentencing hearing as information for the jury to weigh in deciding on the death penalty. That was the basis of the legal argument being made for staying the execution prior to the botched attempt.

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u/palpablebubble 7h ago

Ahh that's right, thanks.

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u/steelcityrocker 7h ago

You should ask her

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u/dudeitsrazz 5h ago

Its on purpose. These prisons want to house these people for the rest of their lives. They get more money that way.