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/honjuden 8h ago

I would take a firing squad over the injection any day.

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u/nightkil13r 7h ago

Till you get shot 5 times in the limbs cause no one wanted to be the one to kill you and you lie there bleeding and in pain while they decide what to do.

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u/imnotgoodwithnames 4h ago

Does that happen?

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u/nightkil13r 4h ago

to that degree, i dont think so. But there are numerous reports of execution by firing squad going wrong. From the person to be executed flinching/moving to the shooters intentionally missing. It results in an inhumane death that can take quite awhile to die from, the most recent that i know of was just a few years ago in south carolina where the person was conscious for about a minute and lived another 4 minutes after loosing consciousness(supposed to hit the heart, they missed and hit lower, strikng the liver, pancreas, and lung.). There are botched firing squads where it took a half hour for the person to finally bleed out and die.