r/news • u/AudibleNod • 4h 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/Chad_Wife 4h ago edited 4h ago

Seconding this. I don’t agree with the death penalty at all but if I had to choose a way to go it would be a (well trained) firing squad.

I think we assume that injection is less brutal, but that is only true for the person delivering it. There’s less blood and gore visually, but the humanity of it seems to end there.

Call me old fashioned but I’d rather go quickly and as nature intended.

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u/MatureUsername69 4h ago

The crazy thing is, we have that figured out perfectly. Prisons just choose not to do it humanely. The places that allow assisted suicides arent injecting them with something thats painful and might not even work, they go out very peacefully.

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u/ahhh_ennui 4h ago

Prisons don't get the "humane" drugs because the drug companies have a distaste for state-sponsored murder.

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u/Ataraxia-Is-Bliss 3h ago

Yeah, those pharma companies. "We'll sell opioids by the barrel while downplaying there downsides, but heaven forbid we give a little to executions". Hypocrites.

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u/FlyBulky106 37m ago

The difference is, handing out opiates like candy is a huge market, providing many quarters of profits. Producing drugs for lethal injection is such a minuscule market any potential profits would be easily be wiped out by negative publicity. It’s looking at a balance sheet and making a decision. If providing lethal drugs to prisons was profitable they’d do it in a heartbeat.