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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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.