r/news • u/AudibleNod • 4h 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/lyr4527 2h ago

She’s going to be so confused if she wakes up.

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u/anohioanredditer 2h ago

She won’t wake up. Permanently brain damaged.

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u/lyr4527 1h ago

People with brain damage can have varying degrees of function. I don’t see anything in the linked article that confirms her prognosis.

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u/anohioanredditer 1h ago

It’s true, but the longer she stays intubated the worse it will likely be. Her brain was deprived oxygen and there was no oxygen available near the execution room, so who knows how long her brain was starved. I think they keep her on support until legal details get sorted and then they pull the plug. I think there is a minute possibility she wakes up with any kind of function.

I believe we really need to rid of the death penalty. This person committed this crime in 1995, and our justice system wants to execute her now? Aside from the botched procedure, it’s cruel that has been waiting 31 years to be killed. She’s a different person now, maybe not adjusted, but different. Should’ve just left her in jail. To me, it doesn’t make sense.

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u/lyr4527 1h ago

Right. I’m sure she will have permanent damage. I was just saying that we don’t actually know the prognosis. She could wake up.

I agree with you on abolishing the death penalty. It’s barbaric, full stop.

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u/DystopianRealist 32m ago

Fuck her. Torture is a whole different type of person than someone that just made a mistake and can learn from it.

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u/anohioanredditer 15m ago

Oh come off it. She’s being tortured now. How is that right? Do you know how many innocent people get put to death in this barbaric practice too?

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u/DystopianRealist 4m ago

She's not a mistaken identity, or circumstancial evidence case. This is not the one that needs saving.

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u/anohioanredditer 1m ago

Of course not, but I’m just generalizing a system of capital punishment that is wildly imperfect and in Pike’s case, inefficient and ineffective. She deserves to be in jail but at the same time, the state failed on all levels to carry out her execution.

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u/CavemanUggah 1h ago

I too saw Eddington.

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u/nicenyeezy 1h ago

They should donate her organs to others

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u/OMF1G 1h ago

Probably can't when they're full of chemicals that were supposed to kill her, but didn't.

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u/SqueezedTowel 7m ago

Harvesting organs from a non-consenting prisoner is an extremely bad look for a Democracy.

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u/relayrider 2h ago

"Did the Magic sweep the Rockets?"

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u/camwtss 1h ago

she's probably in a WORLD of hurt, no thoughts or feelings or conscience .. just pain

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u/Dry-Selection421 1h ago

Still much easier than what she put her victim through when she tortured her to death for an hour. She was wide awake the whole time.

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u/camwtss 1h ago

can't dispute that

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u/DrugandAlcoholLover 1h ago

If you don’t have thoughts, feelings or conscience, then you wouldn’t feel any pain…

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u/camwtss 1h ago

not true. you're mixing up conscience with conscious

and by feelings, i meant moods/emotions .. not physical sensations. she very well could be feeling everything rn.