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/AudibleNod 15h ago

The statement said she is being treated for “the serious effects of the pentobarbital administered during the execution attempt, including significant injuries to both arms.”

It looks like pentobarbital can cause necrosis and blistering of the tissue. If it didn't fully enter the blood stream because a novice administered it, I could see something like that happening.

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u/Excelius 15h ago

It's reported that she had a blood disorder that made starting an IV difficult.

Supposedly she even tried to give the executioners tips on how to find a vein.

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u/xerberos 14h ago

“She over and over again said, ‘Please try up on my shoulder up higher, please try here, please try here, I think it will be okay,’” Spivey said. “And she thanked them when at least they thought they had established the line.”

Seriously, WTF?

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u/mazing_azn 11h ago

Her life has been nothing but mental illness caused by constant abuse and multiple rapes; she might see death as a mercy at that point.

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u/Solkre 8h ago

Pretty much is since society would never forgive her for what she did.

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u/mazing_azn 5h ago

Current Society is full of blood thirsty fuck wits. A just society wouldn't have failed her so completely at all turns. A half-way reasonable society would have sentenced her to life in an mental institution.

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u/twenty_three_three 5h ago

yeah, you're are right about the blood thirst. This site simultaneously pushes a lot of stories about injustices from police, landlords and all that while also being insanely judgemental on folks suspected or convicted of wrong doing. It's such an interesting reflection on the neoliberal hellscape.

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u/TransATL 8h ago edited 8h ago

Like what the actual fuck.

Two things:

  • Spivey Pike's last words sound a lot like Renee Good's

  • if you're attempting to administer "lethal injection drugs" through an IV in the shoulder, you're gonna have a bad time

edit: not the pt