That's fair. But it's not just the Tennessee courts. She's taken her case to the US supreme court multiple times.

And yeah, Tennessee can be conservative as fuck, and the education system leaves almost everything to be desired, but I lived there, 30 minutes from Knoxville, for 15 years. Most people are pretty against the death penalty anymore, at least most everyone I spoke to about it. And considering I did political organizing, I spoke to a lot of people of differing opinions. It's actually one of the hooks we used to use when trying to convince people about more progressive or lefty policies. Start with the death penalty, as it's normally the easiest way to get someone to the point of agreeing that they don't always align with their political party or candidate

it's strongman politics. once a jury has condemned a prisoner to death, the whole dynamic surrounding their case shifts. no longer are they a person whose life carries value, even if that value is complicated by their actions. they become a shibboleth upon which every strongman politician must prove that they are not soft on crime. none of these appeals have taken into consideration the real facts of the case or the woman, but have been treated as an opportunity to prove to authoritarian supporters that this lawyer, this judge, this executive, whoever is able to step in, but doesn't, to set things right is a big strong man that you should worship as a big strong man, and that they perform the role of big authoritarian daddy with aplomb.

She has a condition that causes blood clotting, some kind of thrombosis. Her lawyers told the courts that it could cause the injections to fail.

Other commenter is also correct. She was raped multiple times, and asked for a hanging instead of an injection because 1, she believes a botched hanging would be less awful a way to die than a botched lethal injection, and 2, because being strapped to a gurney (effectively tied to a bed) and surrounded by men and watched by strangers would be incredibly psychologically painful to her. The woman declined a last meal before they did this, id imagine she was too distraught to eat.

Everything I have read says that she wanted another method of execution because strapping her to a guerney will trigger a PTSD episode.

Apparently not.

At no point did I say more women were murdered by the death penalty. I rhetorically inquired why the courts have such a hard on for killing this singular individual woman

Gonna just leave that there, because I genuine don't want to get into why you were so quick to jump to the phrasing you used, or make assumptions about you based on that.

I grew up on a farm and my dad would have to slaughter the chickens we raised to feed the family. Despite trying to make their end as quick and painless as possible, the "chicken running around with its head cut off" was an actual thing sometimes. There's even a famous extremely rare occurrence of a chicken surviving its own beheading: Mike the Headless Chicken. Of course that chicken was monetized because Capitalism, but the point remains: if you have to take a life for whatever reason, there's no going back.

Trying to execute people as humanely as possible is a noble intention, but you need to have a backup plan in case the drugs fail. Just like Mike, trying to rescue her and keep her technically alive after the botched execution attempt is cruelty, plain and simple. It's also preventable, and completely unnecessary...

Not executing people

Just a few follow up questions about the subject will show it’s mostly about punishing and controlling women.

it's always easy to speak for something that isn't born yet

She tortured a girl for hours, bashed her skull in with a rock, then carried a piece of the skull in her pocket, showed it to friends and bragged about the murder

Seems sociopathic.

I also think this weird "tit for tat" obsession with what amounts to a medieval concept of justice is also sociopathic. That because someone has killed, that some how killing them undoes the initial injustice, well, its sociopathic. There is also ample evidence that it doesn't accomplish any of is purported goals. A society, the response to a killing is to create more killing?

Seems sociopathic.

Kinda makes you wonder about the whole concept when no one wants to be involved.

I wonder if it was like jury duty and anyone could be randomly selected to be the executioner if support for the death penalty would change.

Edit: By wonder, I mean it somewhat flippantly. Like "maybe this ain't such a grand idea if no one wants to be anywhere near it"

The angle of execution being a harm is pretty obvious, but on the other hand they could reduce suffering (a harm) by by helping ensure it’s done right. But I guess the oath doesn’t compel them to reduce harm, just not add to it.

Yeah the audience wants to not be confronted with their bloodlust. They want it clean and painless, just a quick "no more bad guy" rather than the viceral reality we're primed to experience when a life is ended

i assume the agonizing part for nitrogen is gasping for air, is not like going to sleep and never waking up. so its not really humane

Like a bomb calorimeter? We could find out how many calories in each person as they go!

Rapid arterial depressurization due to Ballistic lead injection.

From a drug overdose