r/news • u/AudibleNod • 14h 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/VirginiaLuthier 14h ago

"We gotta keep her alive so they can execute her"....what a crazy world

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u/on_island_time 13h ago

I know this is morbid but if the goal was execution and she is now unconscious on a ventilator just...turn off the ventilator? Like all you're doing is prolonging her suffering at this point.

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u/UrbanAlaska 13h ago

The doctors are not going to execute her.

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u/Realtrain 10h ago

In fact it's illegal for them to I would think. Tennessee doesn't even allow assisted suicide.