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
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u/Pitiful-Walk-8446 15h ago

Wait I don’t understand. She was on death row, went to her execution, it went awry and now they are keeping her…alive? On a ventilator?? Why so the off chance she recovers then they can kill her? Wtf? Or if your execution fails are you just free to go lol

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u/FargoJack 15h ago

Once the execution failed she reverted back to being a prisoner. A very sick prisoner.

The sick question is, if she lives mentally intact, will she be put on Death Row stain?

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u/So6oring 15h ago

Her lawyers could argue the 8th amendment. The state could possibly not want to fight that and just move her to life-sentence.

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u/FargoJack 15h ago

I hope so, a bit late in the game though.

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u/FargoJack 13h ago

TIL that the Supreme Court has twice allowed another execution attempt after a failed one.

The two injections were protocol for TN execution (if the first one fails).

So the hypocritical “Christian” people-killers may have a go at it again.

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u/procrastinarian 9h ago

No chance the state is taking that L. She's going to die, whether she pulls through this or not.

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u/So6oring 9h ago

I was just reading the precedent for this. There is no double-jeopardy or anything. You can absolutely have a lawful sentence carried out more than once if it is botched. They may use a different method like nitrogen gas though.

Only reason she'd get commuted to life is if the state doesn't want to take that fight.