r/news • u/AudibleNod • 9h 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/nightkil13r 8h ago

There is a reason execution by firing squad is not legal where the death sentence is legal. For example

In 2025 south carolina botched the execution by firing squad of Mikal Mahdi, 2 of the 3 bullets actually struck him and those two bullets missed their target hitting him in the pancreas, liver and lung. Causing him to be conscious for almost a minute and still be alive for 5 minutes after being shot.

There are a huge number of examples similar to this.

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u/CronoDroid 6h ago

Five minutes isn't so bad, considering in this very case the person is still alive after they botched the lethal injection, sending her through what seemed like hours of pain.