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.”
So she is sentenced to death, and their method fails so she now is on a ventilator. Presumably she is on the ventilator because she can’t breathe on her own and will die without it. If they take her off the vent and she dies would that not then make the execution a success?
She is sentenced to death AND spends 30 years on death row, THEN they fuck it up twice.
I don’t get it. Like what’s the holdup if they already decided?
Oh and also just letting her die? Well that would be inhumane.
The holdup is that usually the lawyers of death row inmates try to stall as much as possible. I guess the general strategy behind that is that maybe you can stall long enough for the U.S. society to understand that a death sentence is barbarism. So, the hope, that you can keep your client alive long enough for their sentence to be changed into lifelong.