Pike survived a lethal injection execution on Wednesday. She was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of her classmate, Colleen Slemmer.
Christa Pike, the woman who survived an execution attempt in Tennessee earlier this week, is on a ventilator as she receives care in the hospital, her lawyers said in a new statement Friday.
“Christa remains critically ill and is receiving medical care for the devastating effects of Wednesday night’s events,” the lawyers’ statement said. “She is critically ill, unconscious, intubated and receiving breathing assistance through a ventilator.”
The statement said she is being treated for “the serious effects of the pentobarbital administered during the execution attempt, including significant injuries to both arms.”
Maybe don’t execute people then.
If it was wrong for her to do it then it’s wrong for the state to do it.
The only time I can agree with the death sentence is if the subject of it has proven to be 1, incorrigible and guaranteed to repeat offend 2, have an offence so vile that they cannot be risked a release into the public, either intentionally or accidentally 3, whose guilt has been established in irrefutable manner.
Think absolute menace serial killer psychos. Child rapists.
This comment implies the motivation is to protect the public from particularly dangerous offenders.
Life in prison without the possibility of parole is similarly protective.
No it isn’t - see “accidental” (unintentional) release.
So the incompetence of prisons is what makes you in favor of executing people?
No. The possibility of a murderer, who tortures and kills people for fun, escaping and torturing and murdering even more people makes me to consider it for the worst of the worst.
99.999% of all incarcerated can be rehabilitated - sure, some might never understand why it was wrong to kill, but at the very least you can get to a point where they won’t do it again - given the appropriate treatment and effort.
It’s the remaining 0.001% - the once a decade psychopaths, the Dahmers, the Lecters, and so on - whom are not rehabilitable, whom cannot even be in a regular prison, who require isolation and constant watch, who cannot be allowed even the chance of escaping.
Why? Because I value the multitudes of lives of the potential victims over the singular life of someone who clearly doesn’t care about others’.
I disagree with you, but I disagree more with the people who are downvoting you for sharing your opinion.
You’re engaging in conversation and debate respectfully, and people shouldn’t be downvoting you for that.
It’s because they’re arguing from a position of emotion, not facts.
guilt has been established in irrefutable manner
Since this is impossible, I’m firmly against the death penalty.
No it isn’t impossible.
Objective, irrefutable evidence exists. Video recordings that clearly show one’s face, with further supporting evidence to ensure its not mistaken identity.
How do you prove the video hasn’t been tampered with?
Forensic analysis can already do that. Yes, even AI tampering can be proven.
How?
Ask a forensic analyst? I am not one so my knowledge of it is cursory at best.
However recent hardware now includes hardware level attestation in the image files that cannot be reproduced, so validity of video and photo evidence can NOW be established easily. If the signature is there, easy, the video wasn’t manipulated. If it is missing, the evidence is no longer attested, therefore questionable.
In the age of DNA, this is most certainly NOT impossible.
Not necessarily in favour of the death penalty, but would you say that the crimes of Donald Trump qualify as having been “established in an irrefutable manner”? I certainly would, and his irrefutably proven crimes include treason, admitted rape, financial crimes in the billions of dollars, suborning genocide, and a myriad of direct war crimes. Are these sufficient to convince you that some place like the ICC in the Hague should have the death penalty as an option, since so many of the war crimes and crimes against humanity are irrefutably proven? For instance, should Benjamin Netanyahu face the death penalty, should he ever be brought to the Hague? Just genuinely curious about the implications of your take.
There’s certainly enough evidence to convict him, but I wouldn’t think it deserves the death penalty even if I wasn’t completely against the death penalty.
That answers my question, thanks! I was trying to figure out if that incontrovertibility was actually the mitigating factor, since he’s personally responsible for crimes against humanity and war crimes against hundreds and hundreds of innocents, all of which his own statements effectively admit, and is also clearly guilty of treason, which is one of the few crimes that is regularly punished with death, so I figured that would neatly delineate it, and it did. I guess, then, that it’s not because crimes can’t be fully proven that you oppose the death penalty.
It’s one factor.
I’m not going to say I’m 100% against the death penalty in any and all circumstances, but I can’t think of any cases where I would want the person put to death. Like even if you had the most open-and-shut case, like someone went up and murdered someone on the street in cold blood, with mountains of evidence and completely unrepentant, no psychosis or brain tumor or anything, I don’t see what good putting them to death would do. Put them in prison and forget about them.
So because of that it’s easier just to be against it in general rather than look for the tiny sliver of corner cases that I might agree with it.
Edit: also generally I’m against it because it can’t be taken back if it comes out we were wrong. And because it can be abused by malicious actors.
Maybe just pull the plug then?
But that would be just letting her die, they wouldn’t get to kill her.
Who is paying for all this care? The attempted execution seemed like cruel and unusual punishment. I’m not in favor of execution, but if you’re gonna do it, do it quickly and efficiently, as humanely as possible. We euthanize small animals all the time. Is this what they go through?
The most humane way is probably the most gruesome way, which is beheading. Every other “humane” execution contains suffering for a bit, while beheading immediately overwhelm your brain with signals and you’re very unlikely to feel pain. The other way is by hanging, which will likely snap your neck once you drop down and overwhelm your brain with signals, but the risk is if the rope doesn’t adjusted to the right height you’re gonna hurt your neck while suffocating.
So get your guillotine now.
Yeah, a cruel (or just incompetent) hangman would shorten the drop so that you die from slow strangulation instead of a quick snap. And given the cruelty is the point, I wouldn’t trust Tennessee to do it properly.
Guillotines are effective, but if not kept properly maintained, they can fail to completely sever the head. And there is some evidence that death is not instant.
Personally, if I was to choose my manner of execution, it would be firing squad. But the most effective would be sedative overdose or nitrogen asphyxiation, again only if done properly.
