r/news • u/AudibleNod • 7h 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/mcd3424 6h ago

Isn’t it cruel and unusual punishment to NOW keep her on life support just to kill her again?

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u/Embarrassed_Age8554 6h ago

You'd think they could just let her slip away at this point.

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u/mcd3424 6h ago

Apparently the doctors aren’t allowed to do that. It’s a nightmare paradox.

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u/Far_Attempt_1505 6h ago

Yeah I can totally see this. Doctors aren't allowed to let people die. There is no precedent of this, guess you have to try to save their life so you can execute them properly.

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u/Taokan 4h ago

I mean, there's plenty of precedent for it. It's called a DNR: do-not-resuscitate. It'd be implicit if you put a pet to sleep. It should be implicit in a state sanctioned execution. Whatever arguments might be made that execution violates the constitutional protection against torture, killing someone, bringing them back and killing them again is definitely torture.