Christa Pike -where does she stand legally?

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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?

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Third person was the lookout she could possibly be telling the truth that she was told they were going to rough her up not actually kill her

I’m against the death penalty but don’t understand why they don’t just use whatever is given to patients who have assisted dying? Or just a massive dose of fentanyl or morphine?

Apparently this was the second failed execution in Tennessee this year. If that is right then the situation is even more of a mess.

The man whose execution failed is still alive and was given a one year reprieve. Not sure what happens after that.

I’m pretty sure that medical personnel don’t make a value judgement on the life they are trying to save.
Do you think they might stop for a fag break if they don’t like their politics or skin colour?

This is what I find chilling about state sanctioned murder like this.

I disagree completely under any circumstances. And in this womans case she was a teenager when she committed the murder and she was deeply traumatised from CSA.

Now I know most victims of abuse don’t go and murder their classmate but I do think this contributed to her state of mind and the clear brutality she inflicted upon the victim.

Equally horrific and abhorrent

Pharmaceutical companies won’t supply the drugs, for ethical reasons. They’re relying on often old and out of date drugs

I think that would be my preferred method if it was me! Instant and I imagine pretty hard to botch.

Well said.

Because the US Constitution (and most jurisdictions in the world) expressly forbids cruel or unusual punishments.
Having someone thrash around in agony on a hospital trolley while coughing up blood for a few hours is probably more than most onlookers could stand.

Me too!

Or a woman murdering and carrying around the victims skull.
Shit how can anyobe have compassion raped or not shes a fn murderer.
Hope she suffers.

Dignitas obtain their drugs through legal and officially-approved means.
Drug companies will not supply their medicines to US States for the purpose of killing people, so the drugs are either very out of date or obtained through a grey market of shady importers.

Actually being sexually abused and raped is treated as a mitigating factor in this country.

This poor woman had absolutely no chance of being 'normal'.

This is the second time that particular doctor has failed to administer the lethal injection successfully, the first time was for convicted murderer Tony Carruthers. Following that, Pike requested death by hanging as she believed that a botched hanging would be preferable to a botched attempt by the lethal injection.

Surely now any case for capital punishment goes out the window. What has happened is beyond horrific.

It be interesting to see who is gonna foot the medical bill Once the media outrage has died.

Objectivley i dont agree with the death penalty
But yes if it was my child that had been murdered i dont know how i would feel
I would probably want to kill the murderer myself.

The state pays prisoners’ medical costs.

Most animals are killed violently in slaughterhouses, but I see your point.

I doubt it's for ethical reasons. Probably to avoid being sued.

Did they ever prove that? She was blaming undiagnosed bi polar disorder too at one point if she took responsibility and was a little...sad? About what she had done regretting it maybe? But she comes across as self centered self focused zero empathy maybe I haven't seen the right interviews?

Sounds like an utter farce.
Also they're trying to save her life when she was on death row and it was meant to kill her?
Make it make sense. 😕

I hope it hurt she deserves nobody's sympathy mine is saved for the real victim Colleen that she murdered I hope she does slowly and very painfully

Perhaps they will commute her sentence to life without parole and I’m guessing she would be held in a secure medical facility. It seems inconceivable to me that she could make any sort of full recovery from this sort of physical and mental trauma, though I’m not a doctor. Death penalty advocates in the US would surely be wary of the PR with executing a seriously sick and disabled person.

The majority of the pharmaceutical companies don't allow their drugs to be used for the death penalty. So states have to scratch around for chemicals that "might" work.