Christa Pike -where does she stand legally?

[mids2019]

Just this really. Christ a is obviously being giving life saving treatment at hospital but where does she now stand legally. I suppose she probably has irreversible brain damage so will this not allow a second execution to take place? Is this a cruel and unusual punishment?

[Note from MNHQ - edited your title, OP]

What a load of rubbish. 🤣

There is more detail in US online papers. She was still conscious after the first dose and still snoring an hour after the procedure started. Its cruel not just on her, but also all those present.

Well that's not up to anyone to decided apart from Colleen's Mum obviously.

In the olden days when I grew up in South Africa it was hanging. If for a weird reason the rope broke the person walked free. It was an "act of God ".
Bearing in mind what thus woman did I suspect an act of Satan more like.

It's easy for them to say because it wasn't their daughters that she tortured murdered and carved a pentagram in her chest christa isn't anybody who deserves sympathy

I think making a spectacle of executing a sexual abuse victims with mental health problems and probable learning difficulties when they have a rapist as a president says it all.
we are living in a dystopia.

What a stupid argument. Of course justice isn't determined by the victim's family. To make that the rule would mean victims who have no family wouldn't matter at all. And obviously where the murderer is a family member they could just let themselves go free.

Allegedly

hes been found guilty of sexual abuse?
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/23-793/23-793-2024-12-30.html?utm_
theres no allegedly about it!

Unfortunately not so.
They executed a man with dementia earlier in the year.
I don't remember the state.
I was horrified to read that.

Typical America really......f* up everything.

@mids2019

I had no idea who you were talking about... A link in the original post would be helpful!

I have now looked her up, and she is a nasty piece of work, a murderer, so I don't care what happens to her.

Agreed.

What a life she's had and will continue to have if she is locked up in a secure hospital with brain damage. Better not to have been born and then Colleen would probably still be here too. I know there were two others involved in her murder but the situation might not have arisen to kill her.

Such a sad case on all levels.

Oh and of course, abortion isn't allowed in Tennessee. Nothing is said about her parents. But one wonders if her mother actually wanted her, given she allowed her to be abused by countless men.

Why can't they just give benzos and a barbiturate OD like they do with animals? And surely they need to be giving 'pain free death treatment', not 'life saving' treatment if she's meant to have already died? It seems cruel to bring her back so they can try and kill her again?

Jesus wept.

What other cruel punishments would you support? Flogging? Cutting off thieves' hands?

They will asphyxiate her with nitrogen, next year.

Singapore canes violent offenders and has a very low crime rate.

Now they are going to lash scammers.

But if thry faiekd, she wouldn't need resusitsting. I dint understand why if she wasn't breathing they didn't let her die? I'm probably being a bit thick here in how long tbay would take

When Michael Portillo (who was also a death penalty advocate, until he researched it) presented Horizon "How To Kill A Human" nitrogen asphyxiation was found to be reliable and humane. However it was rejected in the US as too painless.

Speaks volumes, really.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7183957.stm

Meh. Can’t get upset about this. Bigger fish to fry. Excuse the pun.

In the nineteenth century we used to send the family of an executed criminal the bill for the hanging..... thank God we are beyond that now.

You are either against the death penalty or you´re not. I would expect that person to be behind bars FOR LIFE, and I mean life. Only coming out in a wooden box. But no, I don´t expect murders to be commited in my name.

That's very much my position. If killing people is wrong, it's wrong for the state to do it (other than in times of war where it is an act of defence, obvs).

However, I'm in favour of assisted dying for the terminally ill that want it. Some people find that baffling.

Nitrogen asphyxiation is dreadful as the person literally cannot get their breath. It also has had occurrences of where it went wrong. Some of the states came up with it as a last resort only because drug manufacturers would not sell them the medication required for a medically assisted death.