Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says

MicroWave@lemmy.world · 21 hours

The lone woman on Tennessee’s death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.

At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said “executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals” and Christa Pike was “still alive and snoring,” her lawyers said in a federal court filing.

They said Pike “has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat” and that curtains to the death chamber “have gone down twice.”

stickyprimer@lemmy.world · 7 hours

I’ve been hearing for years that it’s very hard for the government to find qualified doctors who will work with them on this technology or help administer it, and that makes it extremely hard to carry out reliably. This is far from an isolated incident.

CedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 hours

It’s also pretty hard to source the chemicals because some of the manufacturers won’t sell when they find out what it’s being used for.

jacksilver@lemmy.world · 5 hours

Kinda makes you wonder about the whole concept when no one wants to be involved.

I wonder if it was like jury duty and anyone could be randomly selected to be the executioner if support for the death penalty would change.

Edit: By wonder, I mean it somewhat flippantly. Like “maybe this ain’t such a grand idea if no one wants to be anywhere near it”

ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 7 hours

Because executions violate the Hippocratic oath.

DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 6 hours

I mean is it really more humane than a guillotine or are we just doing lethal injections to make those witnessing it feel more comfortable?

As long as it’s built properly a guillotine is pretty effective the first go around.

iamthetot@piefed.ca · 6 hours

It’s absolutely for the sake of the audience, and I don’t know anyone that reasonably argues otherwise.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 5 hours

A lethal dose of opiates.

I feel like if a execution doesn’t work, the person should be free to go. They already went through the execution and served their sentance.

Then the government would actually give a shit.

Thalion@lemmy.ca · 5 hours

Or just get rid of the death penalty because it’s barbaric

Tenthrow@lemmy.world · 5 hours

I don’t know about “Free to go” but definitely not, “let’s keep executing them until it sticks.”

FE80@lemmy.world · 7 hours

The south never learns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Francis

irgendjemand@lemmy.world · 5 hours

Sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me

dogslayeggs@lemmy.world · 9 hours

This feels like a “ball don’t lie” situation.

Or, since the religious conservatives who love life also really like killing people, this is like God ordering a stay of execution.

AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 5 hours

Considering what she was executed for, it may have not been capital G God behind it…

JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip · 12 hours

You’d think there’d be a sort of double-jeopardy thing in relation to lethal injections.

Something like the old Western movie trope of how you can’t be hanged twice.

TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world · 14 hours

This country is an extremely dangerous combination of cruel and stupid.

Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 11 hours

It’s all murder

casualvagrancy@lemmy.world · 5 hours

“We’re going to murder you to show that murder is wrong. You can’t just go killing people to get revenge because you came up with some elaborate ritual to justify it!” Always seemed like a weird take.

Also, we murder murderers but we don’t rape rapists. We don’t rape rapists because we have to be clear that rape is always wrong, no matter what. But we’re ok sending the message that murder is ok when we do it, just not when you do it.

iamthetot@piefed.ca · 6 hours

Technically so far it’s just cruel torture.

MyOpinion@lemmy.today · 12 hours

MAGAts can’t even kill people right. What morons.

blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 12 hours

We live in a clown state

Trilogy3452@lemmy.world · 12 hours

Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 13 hours

You think when she woke up the second time that she said “third times the charm?”.

kurmudgeon@lemmy.world · 21 hours

This fiasco has been nothing but cruel and unusual punishment over and over again for this woman for a matter that should have been settled 30 years ago. Southern states make me sick - led by the “party of life” my ass. They don’t give a single shit about “life” once that person is born.

13igtyme@startrek.website · 21 hours

Common misunderstanding. They don’t give a shit about the unborn. It’s all for show and to punish.

whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 13 hours

it’s always easy to speak for something that isn’t born yet

BooBees@fedinsfw.app · 16 hours

Just a few follow up questions about the subject will show it’s mostly about punishing and controlling women.

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 20 hours

nothing but cruel and unusual punishment

System is working as designed.

TipRing@lemmy.world · 18 hours

State sanctioned murder is the most fucked up thing, except for state-sanctioned torture followed by murder.

Diplomjodler@lemmy.world · 17 hours

The cruelty is the point.