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.”
More like “the people with the specialized medical training to kill people also take oaths of non-harm that prevents them from killing people on the state’s command so the people who end up in the roles of killing people are necessarily not the people with the expert training on how to medically kill people and not mess it up.”
I think you replied to the wrong comment
No, I replied to the correct one.
They asked why it got messed up, your answer was general incompetence, but that’s not really the case here as it’s a specific niche with a competence paradox in that the competent people are necessarily prohibited from partaking in the process.