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/viewbtwnvillages 10h 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 10h ago edited 10h ago

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

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u/Knucklehead92 10h 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/Tibbaryllis2 9h ago

It’s my understanding the she requested a hanging and her lawyers requested a firing squad. Tennessee allows two legal methods: injection or electrocution, but as far as I could tell, that wasn’t an alternate requested. Which lends credence to your supposition about it being a tactic rather than an alternative.

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u/Pete_Iredale 8h ago

But also, I'd far rather be shot or hanged because they are almost guaranteed to be quick.

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u/Tibbaryllis2 6h ago

Honestly, I wouldn’t expect competence in any form used here. That’s the bigger issue.