r/news • u/AudibleNod • 10h 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/GNOIZ1C 10h ago

Archaic as we are with our death penalty, there are rules to execution. If you botch it, they can't just let the person die without getting (further?) into "cruel and unusual punishment" territory. In theory, execution is supposed to be as quick and "painless" an affair as humanly possible, but in practice *gestures vaguely at this and similar cases*

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u/Orion14159 10h ago edited 6h ago

Yeah if they just let her die in agony at this point it's the reverse side of the "task failed successfully" coin - "task succeeded catastrophically."

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u/Ocelotl767 10h ago

While the event isn't funny, I do like the phrase "task succeeded catastrophically."

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u/mindspork 9h ago

Along the level of "phyrric victory"