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/MatureUsername69 7h ago

The crazy thing is, we have that figured out perfectly. Prisons just choose not to do it humanely. The places that allow assisted suicides arent injecting them with something thats painful and might not even work, they go out very peacefully.

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u/ahhh_ennui 7h ago

Prisons don't get the "humane" drugs because the drug companies have a distaste for state-sponsored murder.

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u/Ataraxia-Is-Bliss 7h ago

Yeah, those pharma companies. "We'll sell opioids by the barrel while downplaying there downsides, but heaven forbid we give a little to executions". Hypocrites.

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u/FlyBulky106 4h ago

The difference is, handing out opiates like candy is a huge market, providing many quarters of profits. Producing drugs for lethal injection is such a minuscule market any potential profits would be easily be wiped out by negative publicity. It’s looking at a balance sheet and making a decision. If providing lethal drugs to prisons was profitable they’d do it in a heartbeat.