Christa Pike, who survived two doses of a lethal injection drug last week during a botched execution in Tennessee, is conscious and speaking, her lawyers said in a statement on Tuesday.
Ms. Pike continues to receive critical medical care at a Nashville hospital, the lawyers said. The prognosis remains unclear, they said, but they expect a long recovery.
“Christa is a survivor and will take recovery one day at a time,” the lawyers said.
Ms. Pike, 50, is believed to be the first person to have survived doses of a lethal injection drug. She has been hospitalized since the execution attempt on Sept. 30, after it became clear to witnesses that she was still breathing after two doses of pentobarbital, the drug used in lethal injection executions.
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So… Is this like a movie scenario where she gets to go free?
I mean death penalty opinions aside, does it make sense to give medical care to someone you’re trying to kill? What a weird world we live in.
We, as a society, are trying to kill her, not torture her. The constitution explicitly bans torture
It’s a fine line between execution and torture
Ok but as a society, we’ve gotten pretty good at killing people. Lots of different ways. Suddenly we’re like, “Oh no. This is really hard.” It’s like the one thing we excel at.
Does it? Then why does the US do so much of it?
Could have just shot her in the head when it failed just baint her brown and put a gin in her hand and have coos there.
it’s the doctors’ duty to keep her alive. They took the Hippocratic oath. It’s the state that is trying to kill her, not the doctors
But it was the state that brought her to the doctors.
I’ve heard it’s like, if you survive 3 executions, it’s a sign that God wants you to live.
I heard god was a rapist and a terrorist and an abuser
That’s the Islamic god, and all the other ones. Christian god is cool as hell and super laid back.
If he could, he would let them all go, but the truth is god is not omnipotent, he is impotent.
Then why call him God
Exactly, and I don’t, I call him god as in a concept, god with a capital G is a religious term as in an actual person and elevated position.
Gods only exist as delusions for the weak minded.
Omnipotent is religious belief, impotent is the result of not existing, not existing makes god 100.00% impotent.
If she weighs as much as a duck
or a very small rock
No, you’ve got it wrong - after the first two, the third is free.
From what I understand, no. But her lawyer will probably argue another lethal injection attempt would constitute cruel and unusual punishment. So she may end up getting the electric chair. A grim fate regardless.
I really dont want to find out we’re living through Torchwood Miracle Day.
We already have enough pedophiles-child killers running around without finding out one of them is a hero of the story.