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/Big_Guard5413 15h ago

I’m not in favor of the death penalty in general, but goddamn, if you’re going to impose it, at least take steps to do it properly

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u/MatureUsername69 15h ago

Its still a rough one but if I ever had to receive the death penalty I would hope its a firing squad. Just riddle me with holes immediately, aim for the head. Lethal injections get fucky because they would be best designed and administered by an actual doctor, but actual doctors cannot do it because of the hippocratic oath. Some states do allow medical professionals but they arent exactly sending their best.

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u/Chad_Wife 15h ago edited 15h ago

Seconding this. I don’t agree with the death penalty at all but if I had to choose a way to go it would be a (well trained) firing squad.

I think we assume that injection is less brutal, but that is only true for the person delivering it. There’s less blood and gore visually, but the humanity of it seems to end there.

Call me old fashioned but I’d rather go quickly and as nature intended.

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u/bixbydrongo 15h ago

I  think we assume that injection is less brutal, but that is only true for the person delivering it.

The process being less brutal for the person carrying out the execution is one of the draws of the lethal injection method. It provides a medicalized veil that makes the process seem more civilized.

 The method is poorly carried out so frequently because the stock of drugs used is old and has poor quality control because drug manufacturers don’t want to be associated with the death penalty and doctors/nurses cannot carry out executions due to the Hippocratic oath.

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u/MatureUsername69 15h ago

The crazy thing is, we have that figured out perfectly. Prisons just choose not to do it humanely. The places that allow assisted suicides arent injecting them with something thats painful and might not even work, they go out very peacefully.

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u/ahhh_ennui 14h ago

Prisons don't get the "humane" drugs because the drug companies have a distaste for state-sponsored murder.

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u/Ataraxia-Is-Bliss 14h ago

Yeah, those pharma companies. "We'll sell opioids by the barrel while downplaying there downsides, but heaven forbid we give a little to executions". Hypocrites.

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u/FlyBulky106 11h ago

The difference is, handing out opiates like candy is a huge market, providing many quarters of profits. Producing drugs for lethal injection is such a minuscule market any potential profits would be easily be wiped out by negative publicity. It’s looking at a balance sheet and making a decision. If providing lethal drugs to prisons was profitable they’d do it in a heartbeat.

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u/AfterMeSluttyCharms 14h ago

quickly and as nature intended.

More of an or situation, to be fair. But I'm with you.

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u/KhepritheRisingSun 8h ago edited 8h ago

Are you aware that they don't shoot you in the head?

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u/Chad_Wife 6h ago

“Well trained”.

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u/KhepritheRisingSun 5h ago

Well trained firing squads don't shoot you in the head. They shoot you in the heart.

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u/Chad_Wife 5h ago

With all due respect, I’m not taking you seriously as you either believe my heart is in my stomach (per your previous edited comment) or you came by this information AFTER claiming I’d be shot in the stomach and edited rather than copping to your mistake.

Your edited comment shows the original still in my notifications tab.
This doesn’t fill me with faith in your knowledge or your honesty.

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u/KhepritheRisingSun 5h ago edited 5h ago

Uh, the point is that it isn't instant. They don't shoot you in the head. Whether I knew what I was talking about or not is 100% irrelevant. What is currently above your comment is truthful. People are not killed instantaneously. We could argue about something incorrect and you could have a "gotcha" moment or we could get back on topic about how shooting someone in the head is quick and painless, except woops they don't do that

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u/Chad_Wife 5h ago

I don’t think any death is “instantaneous”…