The hits just keep on coming for the “Women are the victims of the patriarchy so let’s go socialist!” crowd. First we had the mother who murdered her three children (if women could just murder them before they were born, this would never happen!). That was a really good one, but its path to intersectionalism was complicated when the hold-out juror turned out to be black. Then, as usual, the Axis decided to take revenge by doxxing him, the social media mob decided to mug him, and the Axis media started lying.
Never mind! To the rescue came Tennessee, which botched the lethal injection that was supposed to kill a woman who had been on Death Row for decades. Other convicted murderers have had their lethal injections fail, but not women, and, most important of all, not before mid-terms. Christa Pike has been another toxic empathy bonanza for progressives, but just as it was really getting rolling, another she said-they said campus rape scandal burst into the headlines. “Jane Doe” is a much more appealing alleged victim to cheer despite the strong likelihood that she is setting out to (further) wreck the lives of young men whose primary offense may have been that they accepted her drunken and drugged offer of “free pussy.” Interestingly, every lawyer I’ve asked so far has agreed with me that it’s likely that the whole ethics train wreck was launched by an enterprising attorney who told “Jane,” “You know, if you sue, Cornell will probably just settle to avoid the bad publicity. You’ll get millions and I’ll get a third! What’s not to like? As for those guys you’ll have to accuse, fuck ’em. Oh, right! You already did!”
I notice there isn’t much mention of the Satanism aspect of this crime. I saw a documentary on this and that was the one thing the Job Corps classmates really described was the Satanism. I would definitely have voted for the death penalty. The hour of torture before murdering her would be the deciding point for me.
Now, using drugs to kill someone is a problem because it is complicated and people have widely differing tolerances to poisons. From person to person, a lethal dose may vary by more than 10 fold. Rare individuals could be incredibly tolerant to poisons (Ozzy Osbourne).
There are effective euthanasia methods such as the one below.
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Nitrogen asphyxiation is also fairly simple and foolproof. If it isn’t working, just add more nitrogen. If you wanted something fancier, you could always use Argon, which has the benefit of being denser than air, so all the air gets pushed out the top.
Firing squad is also incredibly effective. Half a dozen hunting rifle rounds aimed at a person’s heart and fired at the same time is not going to be survivable. Neat? No.
That is what this is all about though, right? Making the death look neat and civilized is the point. We would just give them a paralytic that will stop their breathing and they will suffocate. Not kind, but it would look calm and peaceful from the outside. There are some reports that Canada has done this for MAID when the other drugs weren’t available. It isn’t like the ‘subject’ is going to file a report and tell what happened. We are going to all this trouble for show and it is resulting in these botched executions.
Always felt firing squad was the most elegant method. It mirrors a jury of peers to carry out the act, and the tradition to load one rifle with a blank gives plausible relief to any executioner equipped with a conscience.
I’d only add an interlock to prevent any rifle from firing until all triggers have pressure on them.
It evokes military dictatorships and political executions.
Sadam was ridiculed for using dynamite for executions. Ironically, it is probably the most humane method in existence.
The blank gimmick does nothing for the person firing. The recoil difference on a blank leaves no doubt to who fired the blank.
Argon, being a noble monotonic gas, has the same molecular weight as the atom; 18. It is less dense than Oxygen (32) and Nitrogen (28). But the weight difference is not enough to undergo any separation under normal temperatures. Krypton is barely denser at 36. The most common dense gas is SF6, but Xenon is also common as a dense gas.
In addition to displacing Oxygen, Xenon is slightly narcotic.
Argon has a mass of 40 g/mol, while O2 has a mass of 32 g/mol and nitrogen 28 g/mol. You are confusing atomic number and mass. Argon is often used preferentially in place of nitrogen in air-sentitive preps because the oxygen displacing property makes it easier to exclude oxygen.
Small correction: I believe Pike was 18 when she committed the crime.
-Jut
Right. She was sentenced when she was 20. The murder was two years earlier. Fixed.
My understanding of the facts is that the botched execution with Christa Pike left her in a coma with irreversible brain damage. If that is true, then I do not expect there to be a subsequent attempt to complete the execution.
My understanding is that U.S. law requires a death row inmate to be mentally and physically competent at the time of execution. A person in a coma has no brain function or consciousness to comprehend the punishment or the state’s actions.
SCOTUS has ruled in Ford v. Wainwright (1986) that states cannot execute prisoners who are insane or mentally incompetent, as that would violate the provisions of the Eight Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment.
That would mean that Christa Pike will have to be left alive until she dies of natural causes,
If true, I doubt the Christa Pike estate will pick up the tab for those bills.
You are correct, the tax payer will have to foot the bill.
The use of a ventilator makes no sense though. If anyone deserves a DNR….
Descriptions of Christa Pike do not mention teaching other inmates to read, becoming a devout Christian while imprisoned, or building toys for tots in the prison workshop. They do mention a conviction for attempted murder of another inmate and an attempted escape. A menace to society? It seems so. She was sentenced to death by the jury who heard relevant evidence against her. The sentence should be carried out. There has been so much in the news recently about fentanyl deaths, and even small amounts appear to be quite lethal. Why not use it?
The same doctor who botched Christa Pike’s execution also botched another execution earlier this year. What is going on here? There might be an ethical angle to the botching of multiple executions such as incompetence.
It is being reported that this doctor had only rarely put a central line in patients and hadn’t done so in a dozen years. He had trouble finding a vein. Many doctors don’t give injections very often, their nurses tend to do that.
They really need to get physicians out of the execution business.