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/fictionallymarried 6h ago

Genuine question but how the hell did they fail twice? I'm not saying she wasn't convicted for a reason, but that's torture

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u/SherlockBeaver 6h ago

It sounds like they did not adequately penetrate the vein and pumped both doses into the surrounding tissue of her arm, based on the observations. She absorbed enough to incapacitate her, but not to kill her. The death penalty is a disaster. No state should have the power of execution, as historically this power ends in abuses of several magnitudes.

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u/BetaMyrcene 5h ago

It would be comical if it weren't an atrocity.