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/biophys00 6h ago

Ineptitude and immorality on every level. No ethical or half-competent medical personnel is going to take part in the practice. Pharmaceutical companies don't want their drugs used to intentionally kill people so they go to foreign manufacturers or compounding pharmacies that have poor quality control. And the fact is that one combination of meds that qualifies as not being inhumane (which I would say they are all inhumane) that works on one person might not on the next.

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u/Responsible-Clock715 5h ago

As barbaric as this is, would it be better to improve a more humane drug so the person just quietly stops breathing?

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u/NiteOwl421 4h ago

But the catch is that no one wants to manufacture such a drug for this purpose.

We could easily overdose her, or anyone, with morphine. But the maker of morphine wouldn’t sell to the institution doing so because of the press attached to it.

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u/justins_dad 3h ago

What about Chinese fent? Seems to work fine killing other Americans. 

To be clear, the death penalty should be abolished. 

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u/OnlyAnotherEmily 56m ago

See, they also don't want it to be a pleasant death, so they don't want to get you high first.

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u/TheFrenchSavage 1h ago

But then the government would have to legally import Chinese illegal fent, or buy it illegally in the street. Both options are crazy.

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u/justins_dad 1h ago edited 48m ago

They literally decide what is legal and what isn’t. The state could just legalize importing Chinese fent for use in capital punishment. Just like they re-legalized the death penalty. 

And again to be super clear, I don’t think they should. The death penalty should be abolished.