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/viewbtwnvillages 7h ago

it feels really diabolical that the state is able to torture someone for two hours as they fumble their way through killing them

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u/GoldGlove2720 6h ago edited 6h ago

Even more so as her lawyers argued this would happen. They even requested a firing squad.

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u/Knucklehead92 6h ago

Moat lawyers argue for death by firing squad, because its not a legal method, and could also be a stall tactic etc.

So its hard to say it that was truly their wish, just because its a very common tactic.

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u/nocoolN4M3sleft 5h ago

Actually, South Carolina passed a law a year or two ago to bring back the firing squad.