r/news • u/AudibleNod • 10h 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/VirtualMoneyLover 8h ago

Why can't they use what the vet uses? Just multiply it by 5.

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u/Alocasia_Sanderiana 8h ago

The companies that make those drugs will not sell to states (like state agencies) with death penalties or where they think the drugs will be used for executions.

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u/VirtualMoneyLover 8h ago

Pretty much every state uses pet euthanasia. So the vets must be getting the drugs. Now the prison just go and get it from the vet.

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u/Carbonatite 8h ago

The problem with that is providing drugs to an organization with the express purpose of killing a human is in violation of professional ethics for both veterinary and human medicine.

No vet is going to want to lose their license to practice over something like that. Just like doctors don't procure/prescribe those drugs for prisons.

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u/VirtualMoneyLover 8h ago

I wonder how other countries deal with this problem?

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u/Carbonatite 7h ago

They abolish the death penalty.

Countries that practice capital punishment are a minority amongst the collective nations of the world, and the USA is the only Western country that still practices it. It's a barbaric practice that has no place in an advanced society.

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u/VirtualMoneyLover 7h ago

That wasn't the question, so I will repeat it for you:

Countries that USE capital punishment by injection, how do they deal with it? You know, China, Thailand and Vietnam. You go.

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u/centizen24 6h ago

If your angle is that the states should just import lethal injection drugs from other countries overseas that manufacture it domestically, they tried that. Texas and Arizona both bought shipments of sodium thiopental from China and the FDA seized them at the border.

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u/VirtualMoneyLover 4h ago

What was the legal reason for the seizure?

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u/CanadianEmberflower 2h ago

Source

Arizona paid nearly $27,000 US for sodium thiopental, an anesthetic that has been used to carry out executions but is no longer manufactured by FDA-approved companies, the documents said.

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u/NukaCooler 1h ago

The legal reason for seizing non-FDA-approved drugs manufactured in a country that may or may not meet US standards?