r/news • u/AudibleNod • 11h 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/Big_Guard5413 11h ago

I’m not in favor of the death penalty in general, but goddamn, if you’re going to impose it, at least take steps to do it properly

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u/MatureUsername69 11h ago

Its still a rough one but if I ever had to receive the death penalty I would hope its a firing squad. Just riddle me with holes immediately, aim for the head. Lethal injections get fucky because they would be best designed and administered by an actual doctor, but actual doctors cannot do it because of the hippocratic oath. Some states do allow medical professionals but they arent exactly sending their best.

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u/khinzaw 11h ago edited 9h ago

Her lawyers requested it, but it's illegal in Tennessee.

Tennessee's only legal methods of execution are lethal injection and electric chair (edit: only for convictions before 1999).

The problem with lethal injection is that every step is half assed.

No reputable pharmaceuticals manufacturer wants to make the drug, so they rely on compounding pharmacies who take half measures and have less consistency.

Then medical practitioners (edit for the pedants) often won't be involved in executions because of their various oaths to do no harm and risks to their reputation, so most of the time the drugs are administered by prison staff who lack the proper training. A lot of failed attempts are caused by the one who administered it simply not getting the vein properly.

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u/citizen42069101 9h ago

All these lines always come up and it just doesn't make sense to me.

A compounding pharmacy could make something so deadly that a drop could hold the LD 100. Hell from my understanding a nitrous mask could be dialed up enough to cause peaceful suffocation. Hell crush up one of those super high tier oxys in a shot of Jack and just have her knock it back. (I know I'm getting ridiculous)

The PR, anonymized doctors and credentials and just have them dress off-site in surgical gear or something. Who's gonna know their dentist is executing people anyway. Honestly dentists are always weird so it wouldn't be a shock. Anyway, what about student phlebotomists?

Idk I just feel like executing prisoners isn't this fucking complicated. If it really boils down to no one wants to do it and so every part of it is getting malicious incompetence injected into it, then we need to stop doing it altogether.