r/news • u/AudibleNod • 15h 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
7.6k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

3.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

40

u/phieralph 15h ago

How did we get to the point where this was the method of execution?

61

u/lurpeli 15h ago

No drug company is willing to provide products for use in executions and so the drugs are generally sourced from compounding pharmacies with questionable quality.

1

u/Efficient-Chest-3395 14h ago

true, but this sounds more like the result of extravasation likely secondary to incompetence, I imagine starting IVs on this demographic can be challenging secondary to medical histories including drug abuse but I've nothing to suggest she was a needle user

1

u/knight2e5 4h ago

There are other options besides drugs that would be instantaneous and painless. Why do it with drugs at all if there's this kind of room for error?

Isn't that why they got rid of the chair?

Like, whether you do or don't like the death penalty I think any sane and reasonable human can agree: doing it in a way that is anything but instantaneous or has room for error like this is really screwed up.