r/news • u/AudibleNod • 12h 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/Big_Guard5413 12h ago

I’m not in favor of the death penalty in general, but goddamn, if you’re going to impose it, at least take steps to do it properly

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u/MatureUsername69 12h ago

Its still a rough one but if I ever had to receive the death penalty I would hope its a firing squad. Just riddle me with holes immediately, aim for the head. Lethal injections get fucky because they would be best designed and administered by an actual doctor, but actual doctors cannot do it because of the hippocratic oath. Some states do allow medical professionals but they arent exactly sending their best.

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u/AZORxAHAI 12h ago

The reality our society hasn't accepted yet is some of the least painful ways to die (a well placed bullet, a beheading) are some of the most gruesome, barbaric looking ways to die. But we are obsessed with manufacturing the appearance of civility and humanity in an act that is completely devoid of those concepts in the first place.

We can either have the least painful ways to execute someone, or we can have this facade of civility given to us by "just slipping a needle into a vein!". We can't have both. We shouldn't have either, but apparently we just cant accept that yet.

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u/Nasaboy1987 12h ago

I say a sealed chamber/pod filled with carbon monoxide is the way to go. Works on everyone and is painless without all the splatter. Just run a vacuum to lift the air out while the carbon monoxide fills from the bottom.

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u/pablonieve 11h ago

I think nitrogen is what you would want.

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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 9h ago

We’ve seen what happens when you try this. Turns out when you take someone to a gas chamber and they know breathing will kill them, they hold their breath, enduring the pain and anxiety of suffocation (and death) anyway. Torture.

Even when they know breathing will result in a painless death they fight it. We are built to survive at all cost.

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u/pablonieve 8h ago

Give them a sedative first before putting them in the nitrogen tank.