Comment on Bene Gesserit

mtpender@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• NathanDerWeise@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Of course the state is being withholding on details, but there’s a few things that could have happened, possibly simultaneously (Note: my source is listening to NPR):

  1. The injections took an awfully long time compared to normal. The medical staff performing the injections have been accused of not being properly trained/qualified. Perhaps not all of it was actually injected into the veins? Witnesses reported that she was singing after the first injection.
  2. The older, more reliable sources of the drug used (phenolbarbital) now refuse to sell it to Tennessee prisons. The source of the drug may have been unreliable. Perhaps it wasn’t as potent as advertised.
  3. The drug can apparently expire/get old, reducing the efficacy to some degree. There is no guarantee they had a fresh supply.

  It’s worth noting that as of yesterday, she was reported as being on a ventilator at the hospital.

  Also I just wanna add that the wrestling character in the picture is (I believe) The Undertaker. The actor is now the mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee. This is a very Tennessee post.

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  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had to look it up, Kane was the mayor of Knox county, TN, not the undertaker. (Wikipedia, Knoxville TN website)

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I had to look it up, Kane was the mayor of Knox county, TN, not the undertaker.

      In July 2020, Jacobs was the only member of the Knox County Board of Health to vote against a mask mandate for those inside certain buildings

      You’d think he’d be pro mask…

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    • NathanDerWeise@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re right. I always get them confused.

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      • plateee@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well, they are brothers.

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  • Elting@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I heard (also on NPR) that she has a rare vein condition which makes it incredibly difficult to administer anything by IV.

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  • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The medical staff performing the injections have been accused of not being properly trained/qualified

    They’re not actually medical professionals right? I think the hippocratic oath basically prevents actual doctors and medical professionals from taking that job, so it’s essentially non-medical staff performing the injections.

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    • NathanDerWeise@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Apparently they are qualified medical professionals. Doctors and nurses are writing to the state asking them to not involve medical professionals in the process.

      npr.org/…/tennessee-execution-tony-carruthers-chr…

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think the hippocratic oath basically prevents actual doctors and medical professionals from taking that job

      if you think doctors treat the hippocratic oath as more than words on paper i have a bridge to sell you.

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      • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, but as the OP replied to me, at least some of them are calling for it.

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• popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From what I understand, she has some sort of blood disorder that can interfere with the chemicals. They were told this by her lawyers and went through with it anyway. Twice. And she survived. Both times. So yeah. That’s fun.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    wait til future serial killers realize you can become immune to lethal injections

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And all you have to do is contract a rare blood disorder that might be highly detrimental to your health and might not even be transmissible! Easy!

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        swings and roundabouts

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  • lemonhead2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    she’s got two lethal doses of the drug in her body now. if she recovers it’s going to be slow and painful…

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  • lolrightythen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thats so fucked up. Does she walk free after this? They already handed out the punishment twice.

    Lol, who am I kidding. I know how the US legal system works

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    • maltasoron@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      She tortured a person to death, so I don’t think so

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      • CannonFodder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        She was 19. Had been abused herself, and had fetal alchohol poisoning. If she’d had spent the last 30 years being rehabilitated, she’d be a very different person from that fucked up 19-yo.

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    • cloudshouter@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The sentence is death, not poked with a needle. The system got this one right up to that point, it wasn’t a complicated case. The system could still do better and needs to change, but she really doesn’t need to be the one who goes free because of that.

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    • lime_red@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The request from her lawyers is to commute the sentence. So no.

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