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 weeks ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Artisian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Only the horrific suffering of others can bring joy to a conservative. All conservatives are vile sadists. Every single one.
yilian@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Honestly, I found it notable that the vast majority of victims’ families have reached forgiveness and sometimes even support clemency. In this case the victim’s mom spent 30 years hoping and 12 hours watching for this offender to be killed.
sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
What is notable about it? Most people don’t really seem to get any closure from the death penalty and regardless of what this mother wants I don’t think she is going to be able to let her daughter rest or that her daughter will rest with any amount of violence done to the perpetrators. People want these people to die but when they do it seems like it dosent ever really change anything.
CoconutLove@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Seems more humane to just give her an OD of morphine
belunos@lemmus.org 3 weeks 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
threeonefour@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
I believe the companies that own the patents on those types of drugs forbid them from being used for lethal injection. It’s why prisons are using weird mixes of drugs they acquire from unknown sources that don’t seem to actually work the way they intend.
eightpix@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The state within a nation that permits execution her refuses medical assistance in dying. That would be a cop-out; too soft a punishment.
They want her to die the way God intended, using a specific cocktail of drugs that knock her out, paralyze her, and then suffocate her in her sleep as a form of revenge. The state assumes this is the appropriate punishment, the words are on the paper; so it is written, so it shall be done.
The alleged rapists at many Ivy-league universities may be able to provide another source for a cocktail of effective drugs.
And, I think someone else mentioned that if the execution fails or is not complete on the same day, they need to provide care until the next attempted execution.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
For the same reason enemy combatants move from hated enemy to protected prisoner the moment they surrender. The same reason cops must move from violence to first-aid the moment the situation goes safe (YMMV in America, though).
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
red states love to show conservatives they are tough on crime, by having executions wether or not if its valid for such an extreme punishment.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
I think the question OP means is “Why not just end treatment and let her die now?”
FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
the official drugs come from EU pharm companies, and they stopped providing it to the states, because the bad pr associated with executing people. they have since are trying to make thier bootleg execution drugs.
spork@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Does this mean I should replace my giant bottle of ibuprofen that expired 5 years ago?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nah, just take twice as much.