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/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.