The lone woman on Tennessee’s death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.

At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said “executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals” and Christa Pike was “still alive and snoring,” her lawyers said in a federal court filing.

They said Pike “has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat” and that curtains to the death chamber “have gone down twice.”

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    I agree wholeheartedly that executing people is barbaric.

    My question is, if you're going to do it, then what do you do if it doesn't work,?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    What value does the question really have though? It's not that hard to not murder people, there shouldn't need to be a plan B

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  • [–] 0 points 3 days ago

    God this is tedious.

    My comment is a response to the parent comment:

    So killing her doesn’t work, they bring an ambulance, take her to the hospital, let her go back to prison for a year and wait for them to try again?

    What is the alternative, once the injections have not worked ?

    You're correct, of course: don't do the injections or any other method of execution in the first place. However, supposing you've already botched the injections what is the appropriate course of action?

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