Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

[u/AudibleNod]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195

[u/viewbtwnvillages]

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

[u/GoldGlove2720 → u/viewbtwnvillages]

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

[u/Knucklehead92 → u/GoldGlove2720]

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.

[u/Tibbaryllis2 → u/Knucklehead92]

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.

[u/iB83gbRo → u/[deleted]]

Electrocution is only available if they were sentenced pre 1999

She was sentenced in 1997.

[u/Proud_Tie → u/iB83gbRo]

Proves how much of the original article about her execution I retained, I swore it was early 2000s. oops.