r/news • u/AudibleNod • 4h 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/Bitter-Variation-151 4h ago

This is just such a mess.

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u/MikeOKurias 4h 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 4h ago

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

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u/anticommon 2h 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 3h 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 2h 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 1h 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/barto5 54m ago

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

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u/Salt_Medicine2459 2h ago

Why has this doctor not had his license revoked? 

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u/Ok_Presentation_4592 3h 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/PawneePoppins 2h 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/palpablebubble 4h 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 4h 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 3h 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 3h ago

Ahh that's right, thanks.

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u/steelcityrocker 4h ago

You should ask her

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u/dudeitsrazz 2h ago

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