Nothing on the botched execution??

[GG Allin]

First all female execution team? Surely they won't screw it up. I'd imagine there is a team of lawyers drooling over this.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6406021884112

[sc_rufctr]

Freekin nightmare. According to the MSN she's still alive!

So what now?

[A930Rocket]

Does the procedure demand the injection be giving into a vein in the crook of the arm?

Sometimes I feel like a pin cushion when doing bloodwork. I tell them to draw from the back of my hand because the veins are very visible. Matter of fact, I had it done this morning, and I was out in a minute.

Can they not do that?


Yes, lawyers will be all over this.

[craigster59]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

Does the procedure demand the injection be giving into a vein in the crook of the arm?

Sometimes I feel like a pin cushion when doing bloodwork. I tell them to draw from the back of my hand because the veins are very visible. Matter of fact, I had it done this morning, and I was out in a minute.

Can they not do that?


Yes, lawyers will be all over this.

Supposedly the criminal had refused food or drink and maybe dehydration caused the lack of a good vein?

[GG Allin]

Imagine the wording in her sentence was "sentenced to lethal injection". She has now served her sentence and is free to go.

What she did back in '95 was pure dirtbag sh ! t. F her.

[sc_rufctr]

Why did it take 31 years to carry out her sentence?

I thought death row was normally around 10 years?

[Gogar]

we are a nation of incompetent fools

[Baz]

[craigster59]

Word on the street is that she finally died after the all female ambulance crew rushing her to the hospital crashed on the highway.

[The Synergizer]

She killed someone. If she suffers, so be it.

[gregpark]

Suffer for life yes, if deserved. Execution? Barbaric. The botched execution? How do you F that up? you got one job!

[sc_rufctr]

Has this ever happened before?

[Alan A]

I’d have paid good $ to see the look on her face when she woke up.

“Surprise…”

[gregpark]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Has this ever happened before?

Yes, several times. Not only is execution barbaric but it's expensive. Copied off the internet:
Seeking, securing, and executing a death sentence generally costs taxpayers $1.5 million to $5 million per case. Dozens of state and federal studies consistently show that capital punishment is 2.5 to 5 times more expensive than sentencing a person to life imprisonment without parole.
On a national level, a death penalty case averages $1 million to $2 million more than a non-capital murder case. The financial burden falls squarely on taxpayers, hitting local county budgets the hardest.

[The Synergizer]

guillotine is supposed to be the most reliable and painless way to execute someone. 17,000 French people would agree. If they could...

[pwd72s]

Maybe it's just a movie memory...but I got the impression that if an execution was botched in the old west, the criminal went free?

Yeah, a very WTF happening...no matter how one feels about the death penalty.

[Jeff Higgins]

Rank amateurs succeed in this every day. Why not just use what they use? Why the need to formulate, or compound some overly complex concoction that has the potential to fail? A big dose of fentanyl or heroin would be both cheap and effective, and the subject would not suffer in the least.

[gregpark]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Maybe it's just a movie memory...but I got the impression that if an execution was botched in the old west, the criminal went free?

Yeah, a very WTF happening...no matter how one feels about the death penalty.

Also copied off the internet:
Willie Francis (Louisiana, 1947): The teenage electric chair inmate survived an initial botched electrocution due to improper setup by a drunken crew. The U.S. Supreme Court later allowed a second attempt, which succeeded.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Can’t make this $h!t up! Sometimes I think the universe is just trolling us.

[masraum]

According to wikipedia:

Media witnesses were escorted out of the building at 8:53 pm, stating that the curtains had gone down twice and that she was still alive,[68] snoring for 40 minutes after the second dose of pentobarbital was administered.[71] Pike did not lose consciousness and maintained a heartbeat during the attempted execution and the procedure was declared botched.[67][65] She was taken away from the prison in an ambulance.[68]

This was the second failed execution of the year in Tennessee,[73] after the same doctor administering the lethal injection failed to secure a central line for the execution of convicted murderer Tony Carruthers.[74] Carruthers was later granted a one-year reprieve.[73] Following the botched execution attempt, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee halted all scheduled executions for the remainder of 2026.[75] Lee also stated that he had ordered a "comprehensive, third-party review to determine exactly what occurred",[76] as well as that "a lawfully imposed sentence is among that State's most serious responsibilities, and the people of Tennessee expect it to be done in a manner that is not only legal and constitutional, but is effective."[77]

Surely, we have a slew of chemicals that are pretty much guaranteed to work.

I know at one point, there were companies refusing to sell the primary chemical to prisons. I feel like I've heard/read that it's normally a cocktail of 2 or 3 chemicals. I think one is for sleep, one is for pain and one is to stop the heart or something like that.

Hell, seems like a heroine overdose would do the trick.

Based on what I read about her, she definitely deserves what's coming to her.