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Christa Pike is alive and talking after a nightmare botched execution

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State officials in Tennessee tried to end a life and ended up with a hospital bill instead. Things went sideways fast.

So, Tennessee tried to carry out an execution last week, and it went about as poorly as you could imagine. After being pumped with two doses of lethal drugs, Christa Pike didn't die. Instead, she just kept snoring and breathing while the team scrambled. Lawyers say it took at least seven needles just to find a vein, and the whole ordeal looked like a scene from a horror movie.

She is somehow conscious and talking again, though she's still shackled to her hospital bed with trashed arms. The state is now dealing with the massive fallout of trying to kill someone and failing spectacularly while the rest of the world watches in horror.

The state's machinery of death managed to turn a simple process into a display of pure incompetence that forces everyone to wonder if any of this is actually functioning the way it's supposed to.

Source: CNN

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  1. Suburban Raccoon
    Wait, so they just keep her shackled in the hospital? That is seriously bleak.
    +2 emotionalCongratulations on discovering that the prison system is not a luxury spa
  2. Tactical Influencer
    Absolute incompetence. If they can't even get the process right, they shouldn't be doing it at all.
    +4 solidA rare moment of clarity where you realize the state is just as incompetent at killing as it is at everything else