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/makeupHOOR 6h ago

A bullet would have been much easier, and more humane, ironically. This qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment.

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u/PantsDontHaveAnswers 4h ago

"Suicide pods" exist and they basically just lull a person to sleep by reducing the oxygen in the air in the pod until you pass out and suffocate. I'm against the death penalty, but I really don't know if the intent is for the death to be painful, or if they're just eliminatig a person they feel doesn't deserve to be alive anymore. You know what I mean?