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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[–] 34 points 2 weeks ago (26 children)

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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    I've heard it's like, if you survive 3 executions, it's a sign that God wants you to live.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    I heard god was a rapist and a terrorist and an abuser

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    If he could, he would let them all go, but the truth is god is not omnipotent, he is impotent.

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    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    what differentiates torture or not is guidelines on a paper.

    most ppl today would agree, that waterboarding is torture. in guantanamo it was not considered torture as long as a few guidelines where followed. guidelines, like at what angel the prisoner is laying on the floor...

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    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.

    The rule of law still matters. While it might feel logical that someone just take a scalpel to an artery after the injection failed, the law says it has to be done in a specific manner. Anything else is (legal) murder. And healthcare professionals also have an oath to fulfill.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Like I said, what a weird world we live in.

    This subject came up while I was having a medical test done and the tech and I discussed it. She brought up a good point. Why not just put the subject to sleep like you would in an operation. From that point, pretty much nothing is cruel and unusual since the inmate won't feel it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    What if someone truly is executed, literally dead and buried in the ground...but then I use necromancy to bring them back? They quite literally died for their crimes. I just...undid it. Are they free to go, having paid their debt to society?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    There are some the cases that are a bit like that in history, like Half-hanged Maggie and Anne Greene, women who survived hanging, which probably gets the closest to that necromancy situation, in real life. Half-hanged Maggie was considered to have gone through her sentence by Scottish law, so she was let go (and had to remarry her husband, since she had legally died). Anne Greene's execution was reprieved, but by English law she was not considered to have gone through the sentence. But in the end she was pardoned, as they believed it was God's will that she lived.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I mean if they can technically say "Hey she was probably dead for a second." Then she served her sentence, right?

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