Did you know that Crista Pike is in a Tennessee hospital on a ventilator after the state of Tennessee tried to kill her and failed?

[msc545]

In a court filing, the attorneys alleged that Tennessee officials failed to follow their own lethal injection protocol while trying to execute Pike with the drug pentobarbital. The execution team acted incompetently and showed “deliberate indifference to her basic medical needs,” they wrote.

As of Thursday night, Pike was hospitalized in the Nashville area, where hospital staff were working to remove pentobarbital from her system, the filing said. She arrived at the hospital with both arms “swollen, burned, and blistered,” according to the lawyers. These are the marks of torture.

The filing offered the most detailed statement about Pike’s medical status since the botched execution Wednesday evening, which prompted a surge of outrage and questions about what went so wrong.

[purplepoppy]

It's headline news. I wonder if anyone is considering this might actually be deliberate and not simply incompetence. Normally you'd pull back on the syringe first to check your in a vein and then when you see blood you administer the dosage. Injecting into the muscle tissue will kill but it won't do quickly or humanely. Is it possible they actually wanted her to suffer before dying?

[Anonymous]

Yeah, it's international news

30 years on death row is insane
30 minutes would be more apt

Gavel down, Glock up and straight to the crematorium

[Sevenpointfive]

and what continues to go wrong!!! take her off of the ventilator. this is so wrong

[msc545]

Take her off the ventilator, She suffocates. Do you think she's in enough agony right now?

[Sevenpointfive]

i think she is. they are prolonging her life in pain just to get her to the point to do it again. the merciful thing at this point is to end it.

[msc545]

I don't think she's in pain at this point. I think she's unconscious. If they think she's in pain, they are probably giving her pain medication. I'm not sure about that, given what's happened that may not be safe.

[msc545]

Anyway the people at the hospital are not going to kill her. They don't do that.

[Sevenpointfive]

i would hope for an angel of mercy situation