Independent inquiry ordered after failed execution of Pike, who was convicted of 1994 murder
Tennessee’s governor on Thursday said it was “deeply disturbing” that his state botched the execution of a death row prisoner who remained alive and snoring 40 minutes after receiving a double dose of the lethal drug that should have quickly killed her.
Bill Lee, a Republican, has suspended all executions in the state until at least the end of the year and ordered an independent inquiry after Wednesday night’s failed attempt to put to death Christa Pike, who was convicted of murder, at the execution chamber in Nashville.
Meanwhile, Pike, 50, remained in the hospital on Thursday afternoon. “We don’t have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment, but we do know that she is alive right now and receiving life-saving medical care,” Randy Spivey, one of her attorneys, said at an afternoon press conference.
So not just medical observation but life-saving measures…?
I am against the death penalty, but honestly I think both may be the worst choice you could have made?
Killing is wrong so we’re going to kill you, but oops we messed up killing you so now you must have your life saved, presumably so we can kill you again.
What the fuck?
Imagine waking up in the hospital where they have to get you healthy enough to discharge in order to send you back to death row
I don’t think a doctor at a hospital gets to change her level of care just because her patient is condemned to death.
Yeah but if you’re deliberately killing someone, why would you rush them to a hospital after you failed miserably and left them in a critical condition? So you can try again later?
For fucks sake, what a horrible situation. Just abolish the death penalty already.
This is the white bear episode of black mirror in real life.
Her brain is probably fried so if they do try again they will be killing a veggie.
'Murikkka, home of the many that MUST have guns, but also the same place that won’t just fucking shoot you with one as an execution. Fill you up with drugs till your body gives out though? Totally fine.
Aw but that means someone would have to pull the trigger!
Putting needles in someone for the purpose of killing them, is exactly the same as pulling the trigger. Plus ACAB, cops would line up to shoot people on death row.
I’m sure they would even have a sign up sheet for who gets to be on execution duty that week.
It is so, SO much worse than this one incident.
this is too fucked up and sad. She should be let go if she even recovered which I doubt will happen. Also if you read her case, she is not someone who deserved the death penality… She grew up with severe and repeated abuse for years and untreated mental illness, and comitted that murder when she was 18 with 2 other people who peer pressured each other into it. The other 2 , a guy and girl got life without parole but they were just as if not more responsible. She served more than 3 decades and got tortured with chemicals into brain coma. It’s a fucked up unjust system to execute an 18 yr with such background
Fuck, that’s so depressing. It’s wild that the US still executes people, but mentally ill teenagers who suffered abuse as kids? These people need help, not the death penalty.
Oh the state kills a LOT of mentally disabled and unwell people. It’s almost always been used as a way to get “undesirable” poor/black/“inferior” people out of the world in the US, and that’s especially true with the South.
She’s now the latest entry on the List of botched executions on Wikipedia.
Fuck capital punishment. Fuck murder by the state that can’t even figure out how to maintain a road.
I wonder what her medical bill will be like.
Don’t worry, she’s a prisoner so the tax payer will fund her medical bills, no expense should be spared to save her so we can kill her (also at your expense).
It’ll be a killer.
I’ll prefix this with I’m not for the death penalty. But if someone is sentenced to death why does it take 30 fucking years to actually do it. What’s the fucking point of giving someone no hope, no rehabilitation, no way out if you are just going to kill them anyway. Makes no sense
Because the people are fighting for their lives. If they choose not to fight it all happens relatively fast.
In some states there are automatic appeals for those with death sentences.
If it takes that long it’s because the person is appealing it. A right that we thankfully still have.
>be tennessee >try to execute pike >fail >try again >fail, drug gets injected into muscle >pike starts snoring while burning alive >pike receives "life-saving medical care"this is why the death penalty doesn’t work
Is there anything Republicans are actually good at? I mean aside from running cover for a bunch of pedophiles or getting us into nonsense wars. And by good at I mean doing something that doesn’t just fuck shit up for the rest of us.
Republicans are the animal side of humans.
Animals are more honest about what they are.
We’ve known for literally decades that the standard for executing death row inmates is BELOW the standard that we use for euthanizing animals. I, for one, am not going to believe nor tolerate any of this fake head scratching from those who have been running those systems. This is being framed as unintentional cruelty begotten from miserly negligence. It never was just about the money. As with so many other things in this country; the cruelty was the point.
The thing I never understood, especially in southern states, is why their capital punishment didn’t just involve a bullet to the temple. Like, kinda hard to screw that up. I’m not for capital punishment, I just don’t understand why the focus is on lethal injection, and states keep screwing that up in various ways. Cruel and unusual would be something that prolongs the process of making someone dead or using error prone solutions that don’t succeed, and a bullet is neither of those.
For one, that has also failed to kill people. Second, the “techniques” used for execution are made to be as impersonal as possible; in most cases the person doing the killing doesn’t see the person being killed when they take the action, the only exception that I know of being firing squad, but the condemned is still made to wear a hood. It’s cowardice masked as “humane” because they don’t want the executioner to have PTSD from taking another human’s life.
Yeah, fair. Specifically to the firing squad, I believe it was set up where only one person in the squad had live rounds, so none of them knew who actually took a life. I wasn’t considering the personal toll it would likely take on someone to have their job literally be state-sanctioned murder. Being in the military is one thing, but this level would likely take a heavy toll on all but sociopaths/psychopaths…
One discussion was to perhaps replace injections with overzealous ICE employees who get erect when “shootin’ and killin’”. /s
Good, hopefully they stop them for good
