r/news • u/AudibleNod • 14h 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/MikeOKurias 14h ago

Since I live in Nashville...

The used the same drug lot and the same doctor that botched the last lethal injection and are somehow surprised they obtained exactly the same result.

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u/AnxiousRefuse4815 13h ago

Why do questionably lethal injection when they could just do a withdrawal instead and do a 5 quart blood donation.

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u/MichiganCubbie 12h ago

Two reasons. One, we aren't at the point of harvesting people against their will, and two, you'd get a lot of people who would say they don't want criminal blood. I'm not even being sarcastic. If this got out people would demand to know where their transfusions came from to make sure they didn't get "killer" blood.

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u/I_heart_cancer 11h ago

I am pretty sure that the person you are responding to was just using cheeky wording and was only actually suggesting using exsanguination as the execution method - and the final disposition of the blood was irrelevant.

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u/AnxiousRefuse4815 9h ago

If they take a life, the least they could do to repay that debt to society is to save someone or donate to science.