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.
'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.
When firing squads were a thing here there would be multiple shooters firing simultaneously but only one of them had live ammo. This was to “protect” the executioners from having to know who actually killed the person.
Normally only one would have a blank. You want multiple bullets to hit the target.
Oh I think that’s right. Either way accomplishes a stupid goal of prioritizing the executioners emotional health over the life of the person being executed.
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
Imagine being held in prison for 30 years, knowing there’s no way out and you’re gonna be executed, and then when that day comes, they put you through torture by asphyxiation for 40 minutes, to then rush you to the hospital, so you can be saved and they repeat it again.
Absolutely fucking wild.
Reading the eyewitness accounts from the botched execution, fucking wild is an understatement.
They had non medical trained staff administering it, old and untested drugs that came from unknown sources, they closed the blinds on multiple occasions so no one in the public really knows everything that happened behind the scenes.
One reporter even said they have never seen an execution like this and they have attended a lot.
They had non medical trained staff administering it
This is not unusual. Ethical medical personnel don’t perform executions.
