This was rough to read. It just reaffirms my stance against the death penalty.

Update: Tennessee fucks up another "lethal" injection. https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-set-to-carry-out-rare-execution-of-a-woman/

The filing said the execution began around 8 p.m., that two syringes of pentobarbital were administered, and that Pike maintained a heartbeat and was heard audibly snoring.

Media witnesses report being unable to view what was taking place. They were able to hear groans, moans and snoring for more than 40 minutes before they were escorted out.

I don't know if they got bad drugs, or if it was some other form of incompetence, but this is not okay. Time to abandon lethal injection altogether if we can't do it better than this. Firing squad like she proposed is probably one of the better methods if Tennessee wants to remain in the capital punishment business. Yes, you'd have to clean up blood, but that's often what happens when you kill people. Let's stop euphemistically pretending we're "putting her to sleep."

For the next one, that is. I think surviving a botched execution attempt should get her sentence commuted.

This reminds me of that episode on Last Week Tonight about lethal injection. Lethal injection isn't about a "humane" way to kill someone. It's more about providing comfort to people who support the death penalty but don't want to think about the morbid details about killing people. I wonder how many people would stop supporting the death penalty if they were forced to witness an execution live, especially if it's lethal injection. If the horror of witnessing a botched lethal injection doesn't at least give people pause about the whole idea of execution, then I don't know what will.

Can someone answer me why we still use a shitty cocktail flurry to kill someone? Isnt anesthesia itself able to kill you at a high enough dose because you just stop breathing? Could you also just add an excessive push of something like fent? Like as inhumane as execution is, putting someone to sleep and then overloading them with a killer seems a pretty humane way to go about it.

I kind of suspect that this is a legal tactic, but honestly...if I were going to be executed and had the opportunity to be the last person executed by firing squad in the US, which I guess she'd have pretty decent odds of being, I think I might take it. Firing squad is probably marginally less-pleasant than lethal injection, but it's also pretty fast, and that's probably a record that'd last.

That being said, my understanding is that women generally don't go in for death by firearm, so it's kind of an unexpected request from her. One of the major reasons that women in the US have a much higher survival rate when it comes to suicide than men is that women are much more likely to use poison than firearms to kill themselves. A hospital can do a lot more about poison if they catch it in time than someone having just blown their brains out.

IIRC from past reading, that stems from the fact that guys tend to think less about how they're gonna look afterwards, whereas women think about how they're gonna look, say, lying in state at a funeral as a corpse.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/09/26/firearms-suicide-deaths-women-cdc/75353527007/

Studies have shown that women and girls tend to have more suicidal ideation, attempts and self-injury. Men and boys are more likely to use lethal means such as firearms and, therefore, have much higher rates of suicide. Researchers have called this the “gender paradox.”

Yeah.

Oh, but...hmm. Apparently, according to the article, I am out of date on poison being the favorite route for women to do themselves in; things have shifted in the last few years.

The CDC report published Thursday, however, found firearms were the leading means of suicide for women since 2020, and suicide deaths overall among women also increased.

EDIT: Oh, wait, no, the CDC thing is on the means of successful suicide, not just all attempts. So while "firearms are now the leading method for successful suicide for women" is still a change, that's not the same thing as being the preferred method to attempt suicide.

I would too, based on the limited knowledge they have of lethal injection procedures.

They should just move over to the guillotine. As a bonus it'll be ready for the reckoning that is owed for all those traitorous scumbags running your country at the moment.

She sought firing squad before the botched attempt with the lethal injections.

Crappy headline. Crappy article.