Because citizens (even criminal ones) have a right not to be subject to cruel and inhuman punishment; and pulling the plug medically is very likely at least one of those. There’s a question of if it is possible to reliably have humane executions, but clearly TN isn’t good at it.
Why is Christa Pike from TN being kept alive after two failed execution attempts?
Submitted 3 hours ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Artisian@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
CoconutLove@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
Seems more humane to just give her an OD of morphine
belunos@lemmus.org 25 minutes ago
That’s sort of what they tried. They gave her a huge dose x2 of a barbiturate, which would kill in much the same manner. Problem is they missed the vein, x2
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Because the state fucked up and didn’t want to make sure the drugs they used were fresh.
Basically cause they wanted to save money. But the monkey never curls in your favor.
Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
She also warned them that she had a medical condition that made them ineffective. Unfortunately, the pigs who sign up to administer those drugs are in it for the pain and misery.
davidgro@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I think the question OP means is “Why not just end treatment and let her die now?”
FaceDeer@fedia.io 13 minutes ago
My guess would be because the "we're trying to kill her" thing is an extreme aberration of the regular order of things so as soon as the narrow window where that was somehow okay is closed the default practice of trying to help people kicks back in. Especially once she's in the hands of actual medical practitioners who take their oathes seriously.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Could also be that the prison literally cannot buy the drugs they need. A lot of these drugs come from “unknown sources” because medical companies don’t like to sell drugs they know are going to be used for lethal injection.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
So, this is going to sound like something an idiot would say, but, I’m honestly curious.
Why don’t they just execute people with a slow overdose of heroin or fentanyl or something? I’ve heard that the actual cocktail isn’t all that comfortable for the victim anyway, so let them drift off to sleep and not wake up. I know there must be a reason, and I’d be really interested to hear it.
spork@pawb.social 2 hours ago
Does this mean I should replace my giant bottle of ibuprofen that expired 5 years ago?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Nah, just take twice as much.