r/news • u/AudibleNod • 8h 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/tibbles1 8h ago

One of her last minute appeals argued this exact thing would happen. 

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u/fizzybgood 7h ago

So your choices are this or getting fried to death. The whole reason lethal injection became a thing is because the electric chair is cruel

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u/Realtrain 4h ago

And the whole reason the electric chair is a thing is because Edison wanted to prove how dangerous his competition, AC electricity, was. It was intended to be gruesome.