Pike’s lawyers said she is back in same prison she’s lived in for last 30 years and will continue to receive medical care
Christa Pike has been discharged from the hospital after surviving Tennessee’s botched 30 September attempt to execute her by lethal injection and is back in prison, her lawyers said on Saturday.
Saturday’s update about Pike came 10 days after the death row prisoner was given two doses of pentobarbital, a lethal injection drug, in what proved to be a failed execution attempt. She was hospitalized after surviving the botched execution and was declared brain dead on Monday.
But in a shocking turnaround, on Thursday her lawyer said that she was “up and walking” – though she remained “somewhat foggy” and wasn’t able to use her arms very much.
Pike said that her arms were burning during the failed execution and asked if it was supposed to feel that way. Witnesses present in the chamber said that “nothing was normal” while officials have maintained that they followed every step of Tennessee’s approved execution protocol.
I mean part of me says let her go because she’s already been executed and didn’t die so there’s that. However she also horrifically murdered somebody so part of me says walk her out to a cliff and push her off. If they did let her go she would have to wear an ankle monitor at all times and subject herself to drug tests daily.
life imprisonment has a 100% success rate.
No one has ever survived.
That’s got to cost less for the taxpayers than the legal shitstorm that’s going to follow in the wake of this incident.
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The prison system is so rotten and corrupt to enrich the few and hurt many. The number of people in prison is deplorable and a sign that the system is rotten to have so many. We can see what helps people out of poverty and crimes and deaths of desperation, but do the opposite too often, so this is the result of that. Unhealthy systems produce unhealthy society and people. All this suffering to enrich industries related to prisons too, like all the concentration camps and supporting businesses in on the violent grift. This is the sickness of doubling down on unhealthy ways.
As much as I oppose capital punishment, if you guys have to do it, why not use something that’s a guaranteed kill? IDK, a super fast head crushing machine or something.
Because the chemical execution method isn’t to ensure the swift, painless death of the accused, it’s to soothe the psyche of the executioner
There’s exactly 0 reasons not to use nitrogen for death penalty. Guaranteed death every time.
Or monoxide, what happened to carbon monoxide?
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What happened to hanged till death?
If at any point she died and was brought back I foresee an interesting legal argument to her being set free.
Not really. Despite the tails you hear about people saying they were dead and came back after seeing heaven, and saying stuff like they had a heart attack and died three times on the way to the hospital, those aren’t dead. Do you think any of those cases would be willing to send all their stuff off to whoever is inheriting it? The laws know this and the sentence is not going away on a gotcha. Otherwise people with life sentences or on death row would be trying to give themselves survivable heart attacks all the time. Not a fan of the justice system or the death penalty in general, but this lady is there for a good reason. It may functionally turn into a life sentence but they sure aren’t letting her go free.
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Judges usually don’t like tricks like trying to argue a definition of death in which the person is alive afterward. It wouldn’t be accepted in the other direction either; an assailant whose victim is alive is not guilty of murder.
There are certainly legal arguments against trying to execute her again, but if one succeeds, the outcome will be life in prison, not release.
So, if a murderer survives we just let them go? That’s fucking stupid
The intent of the death penalty is clear. I don’t think we’re gonna see any of this tv show type court stuff.
I’ve heard this is why death sentences state “hanged by the neck until dead.” Someone survived a hanging at one point and successfully argued that their sentence had been carried out, so they could not be hanged again. I read about it years ago, I don’t remember details. All this is to say she might not be able to make that point. Either way, you’re right. It’s gonna be interesting.
But can you legally die and then be revived? Like say someone’s heart stopped for 30 seconds and then they came back to?
If I remember correctly a guy tried to argue this in court a couple years ago after having a heart attack in jail and the judge ruled that since he was in court arguing his case he was still alive and the life sentence was still in effect.
Should have argued something about reincarnation and since he died it was now someone else.
The intersection of philosophy and law is always an interesting place to be.
Doesn’t this reach the bar for cruel and unusual punishment?
Much of what I’ve read about the American prison system would qualify as cruel and unusual punishment. The same applies to the Canadian system more than I’d like to admit.
Imagine how weird it must be to see your prison friend finally get shipped off to death row, have a sad goodbye, prepare yourself for life without her, and then she just casually walks back into prison.
I was thinking how weird it must have been to receive a lethal injection, black out, and then wake up somewhere. That must have been real mind-blowing for a moment.
But they knew it wouldn’t work she knew it wouldn’t work… everyone knew and they still tried it
TWICE
I don’t know how casual it was
And idk if she actually walked back in.
“Once she’s healthy enough, we can execute her again!”
They’ll probably live stream it too
Pay-per-view
Can’t be barbarians about, now can we?
This is what happens when you have death cult officials that are trying to bring about the end times.
Fucking barbarians
The US justice system is making me feel bad for a murderer. I’m not sure it’s what they’re trying to achieve, but it’s certainly an achievement.
how can someone be declared brain dead and then wake up the next day with no mayor neurological damage?
were they trying to finish the job by disconnecting her from life support?MAHA.
It’s the US, how does someone who is brain dead still have their job on the senate?
Coasting on your accomplishments as a coach is one way.
were they trying to finish the job by disconnecting her from life support?
I’d imagine so, yes. Clean up the loose ends as it were. Trying, twice, to kill someone and having them still walking around is rather embarassing after all.
Probably the same docs who botched her execution declared her brain dead
The thing is that no doctors are involved in the executions. They take the Hippocratic Oath so they swear to not willingly do harm. The people doing these executions are usually prison staff that have no medical training.
The Hippocratic oath isn’t in any way binding or insurance companies would never be able to hire in house doctors.
They don’t need to take that oath anymore and haven’t for a long time.
However any medical people participating in executions would have their licences revoked.
There is also legal assisted suicide in Canada and parts of EU. I believe doctors are invilolved in that
That exists in the US too.
I see an argument for that to be an act of compassion, not harm.
Yeah assisted suicide has specific requirements and is very much about compassion. Sort of similar to the way hospice care effectively denies medical intervention that could save someone’s life.
30 years to kill her? Why do long?
Witnesses present in the chamber said that “nothing was normal”
As opposed to non-botched, routine state execution matinees they go to every Thursday.
“Normal”?
Nothing about this is normal, even if the woman had died in the expected manner.
Normal doesn’t mean right, it just means the same as usual, and they didn’t even hit that.
Right, do the witnesses spend a lot of their free time watching people get executed enough to have a frame of reference for what it should look like?!
Yeah. One of the witnesses was a journalist who has attended hundreds of executions.
They would certainly have known what to expect.
True. Even if they don’t know the process, everyone would expect the same outcome. Though the wording makes it sound like they had an understanding of the process itself. I’m probably either reading it wrong or reading too much into it.
Thank you.
sooo… is she a zombie then?
No she’s a deity.
clearly the second coming
If her original crime were less criminal she’d be eligible for sainthood with this miracle
