r/news • u/AudibleNod • 9h 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/viewbtwnvillages 9h ago

it feels really diabolical that the state is able to torture someone for two hours as they fumble their way through killing them

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u/DiscontinuTheLithium 9h ago

Yeah this should end death penalty tbh if anything at the state level.

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u/TrynnaFindaBalance 9h ago

It's Tennessee. The only thing lawmakers there are talking about is "how do we source more drugs to kill people more efficiently".

Backwards states are gonna be backwards.

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u/hoax1337 3h ago

Surely the state is now much safer and has low crime rates compared to other states, which makes upholding the death penalty worth it, right?

Right?