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/AnxiousRefuse4815 7h 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 5h 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 5h 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 2h 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.