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Christa Pike out of hospital and back in prison after botched execution attempt
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2026
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how can someone be declared brain dead and then wake up the next day with no mayor neurological damage?
were they trying to finish the job by disconnecting her from life support?
It's the US, how does someone who is brain dead still have their job on the senate?
Coasting on your accomplishments as a coach is one way.
That and being part of the Epstein Hellraiser cult.
I'd imagine so, yes. Clean up the loose ends as it were. Trying, twice, to kill someone and having them still walking around is rather embarassing after all.
It's the US. The only safe way to kill her is to send her into a child daycare or school and let the missiles do their job.
Probably the same docs who botched her execution declared her brain dead
The thing is that no doctors are involved in the executions. They take the Hippocratic Oath so they swear to not willingly do harm. The people doing these executions are usually prison staff that have no medical training.
They don’t need to take that oath anymore and haven’t for a long time.
However any medical people participating in executions would have their licences revoked.
There is also legal assisted suicide in Canada and parts of EU. I believe doctors are invilolved in that
I see an argument for that to be an act of compassion, not harm.
Yeah assisted suicide has specific requirements and is very much about compassion. Sort of similar to the way hospice care effectively denies medical intervention that could save someone's life.
That exists in the US too.
The Hippocratic oath also includes a promise not to perform surgery, and to leave that to surgeons:
Gets broken every day.
That's the original ancient oath. There are modernised versions. As of 2018, all US medical school graduates made some form of public oath but none used the original Hippocratic Oath. A modified form or an oath unique to that school is often used.
It’s a guy named Vinny who dropped out of phlebotomy class, administering the frostbitten drugs kept in the back of the break room fridge in Snapple bottles, labeled “do NOt drINk”
The Hippocratic oath isn't in any way binding or insurance companies would never be able to hire in house doctors.
they arnt risking thier licenses, or livelyhood too,.
"docs" prison system almost never use actual licensed professionals. nurses/docs arnt going to risk thier licensed being revoked, or the bad reputation they would get,.
That's what I was thinking as well. You don't just miraculously wake up within a day from no brain activity measured. Someone intentionally manipulated a measurement or just skipped it.
MAHA.