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.
I had a housemate apologize in advance for the poor behavior of his guests later that night. I don’t think I formally rejected it, but I certainly wasn’t impressed. So you know this is going to upset me enough to warrant an apology, but you’re won’t be addressing your behavior, or your friends, you’re just going to do it anyway, with a clean conscience because you’ve already apologized?