Christa Pike, who survived two doses of a lethal injection drug last week during a botched execution in Tennessee, is conscious and speaking, her lawyers said in a statement on Tuesday.
Ms. Pike continues to receive critical medical care at a Nashville hospital, the lawyers said. The prognosis remains unclear, they said, but they expect a long recovery.
“Christa is a survivor and will take recovery one day at a time,” the lawyers said.
Ms. Pike, 50, is believed to be the first person to have survived doses of a lethal injection drug. She has been hospitalized since the execution attempt on Sept. 30, after it became clear to witnesses that she was still breathing after two doses of pentobarbital, the drug used in lethal injection executions.
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The US Federal Government (excluding the military probbaly) is bad at everything it tries to do, including killing people.
That’s overly reductive.
In general the US government is good at the things it wants to be good at, and bad at the things is doesn’t
Death penalties are a good example of one where it doesn’t want to be good at it. A huge portion of the population does not want death penalties, and obstruct the process where they can - a good thing, generally for anyone against the death penalty
A result of that is an inability to find competent executioners and often inability to find drugs for lethal injections
An example of something the government does well: Aviation infrastructure. The US has far and away the best aviation infrastructure in the world, with an incredible safety record. Best part is all the infrastructure is socialized. Anyone who wants to use it can, for free. Got a cheap drone you want to fly through controlled airspace? You can access ATC services for free to do it
While the US military is very good at spending money it is somewhat… less good… at winning the wars it gets itself into.
That’s because the military fights battles, they don’t win wars. You can’t bomb people into compliance. You can’t kill enough civilians to ensure peace. Military occupation creates resistance, not acceptance.
The only way the military can “win” a war is to kill everyone. The greatest military in the world doesn’t mean shit if you don’t have the economy and the diplomacy to back it up. Saying that the military isn’t good at winning a war is like saying that a steering-wheel isn’t good at winning a race.
“We the people”.
That means YOU are part of the problem. Fix it.
Edit: adorable lemmy thinks I’m wrong.
Adorable lemmy might not be all american.
They need to fix their shit too.
I am iron Man
Gasp iam iron Man?