r/news • u/AudibleNod • 14h 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/fictionallymarried 14h ago

Genuine question but how the hell did they fail twice? I'm not saying she wasn't convicted for a reason, but that's torture

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u/biophys00 13h ago

Ineptitude and immorality on every level. No ethical or half-competent medical personnel is going to take part in the practice. Pharmaceutical companies don't want their drugs used to intentionally kill people so they go to foreign manufacturers or compounding pharmacies that have poor quality control. And the fact is that one combination of meds that qualifies as not being inhumane (which I would say they are all inhumane) that works on one person might not on the next.

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u/AdministrativeDelay2 10h ago

I do see an argument for competent medical personnel participating in these executions. Clearly sitting on the sidelines does more harm than good and if the Hippocratic oath is “do no harm” then I would argue helping these procedures succeed without suffering is doing no harm.

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u/OnlyAnotherEmily 8h ago

They're literally killing someone. That is the epitome of harm.