It's the US, how does someone who is brain dead still have their job on the senate?

were they trying to finish the job by disconnecting her from life support?

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.

Probably the same docs who botched her execution declared her brain dead

were they trying to finish the job by disconnecting her from life support?

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.

They'll probably live stream it too

third times a charm.

Can't be barbarians about, now can we?

Much of what I've read about the American prison system would qualify as cruel and unusual punishment. The same applies to the Canadian system more than I'd like to admit.

That would be the entire US prison system.

I was thinking how weird it must have been to receive a lethal injection, black out, and then wake up somewhere. That must have been real mind-blowing for a moment.

I don't know how casual it was

IV medication can burn depending on the type and concentration. Propofol is notorious for a burning or stinging sensation.

You were executed via chemical injection?

Yeah but then you don't get the blood thirsty pro-life conservatives who froth at the mouth to kill anyone not in utero frothing at the mouth waiting for others to die.

These are the same people who don't want socialized healthcare, regardless on how much more cost effective it is at both a personal level and a government level.

Frank Morris, and John and Clarence Anglin would disagree. It's so rare though, that your point stands.

Normal doesn't mean right, it just means the same as usual, and they didn't even hit that.

Thank you.

Do the witnesses spend a lot of their free time watching people get executed enough to have a frame of reference?

I've heard this is why death sentences state "hanged by the neck until dead." Someone survived a hanging at one point and successfully argued that their sentence had been carried out, so they could not be hanged again. I read about it years ago, I don't remember details. All this is to say she might not be able to make that point. Either way, you're right. It's gonna be interesting.

The intent of the death penalty is clear. I don't think we're gonna see any of this tv show type court stuff.

Not really. Despite the tails you hear about people saying they were dead and came back after seeing heaven, and saying stuff like they had a heart attack and died three times on the way to the hospital, those aren’t dead. Do you think any of those cases would be willing to send all their stuff off to whoever is inheriting it? The laws know this and the sentence is not going away on a gotcha. Otherwise people with life sentences or on death row would be trying to give themselves survivable heart attacks all the time. Not a fan of the justice system or the death penalty in general, but this lady is there for a good reason. It may functionally turn into a life sentence but they sure aren’t letting her go free.

Judges usually don't like tricks like trying to argue a definition of death in which the person is alive afterward. It wouldn't be accepted in the other direction either; an assailant whose victim is alive is not guilty of murder.

There are certainly legal arguments against trying to execute her again, but if one succeeds, the outcome will be life in prison, not release.

I read that at some point in hospital she was declared brain dead, which surprised me, because normally that's not a temporary condition, but in the BBC article they just say "Her legal team believed for days that she was brain dead and expected her to be taken off life support at any moment.", which is not the same thing.

So, if a murderer survives we just let them go? That's fucking stupid

Because the chemical execution method isn't to ensure the swift, painless death of the accused, it's to soothe the psyche of the executioner

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There's exactly 0 reasons not to use nitrogen for death penalty. Guaranteed death every time.

Pneumatic hammer on the back of a chair strait into the back of the skull.

Or monoxide, what happened to carbon monoxide?

Because due process and a good legal team on her side that tried everything there was to try.

No she's a deity.