Pike’s lawyers said she is back in same prison she’s lived in for last 30 years and will continue to receive medical care
Christa Pike has been discharged from the hospital after surviving Tennessee’s botched 30 September attempt to execute her by lethal injection and is back in prison, her lawyers said on Saturday.
Saturday’s update about Pike came 10 days after the death row prisoner was given two doses of pentobarbital, a lethal injection drug, in what proved to be a failed execution attempt. She was hospitalized after surviving the botched execution and was declared brain dead on Monday.
But in a shocking turnaround, on Thursday her lawyer said that she was “up and walking” – though she remained “somewhat foggy” and wasn’t able to use her arms very much.
Pike said that her arms were burning during the failed execution and asked if it was supposed to feel that way. Witnesses present in the chamber said that “nothing was normal” while officials have maintained that they followed every step of Tennessee’s approved execution protocol.
The thing is that no doctors are involved in the executions. They take the Hippocratic Oath so they swear to not willingly do harm. The people doing these executions are usually prison staff that have no medical training.
The Hippocratic oath also includes a promise not to perform surgery, and to leave that to surgeons:
Gets broken every day.
That’s the original ancient oath. There are modernised versions. As of 2018, all US medical school graduates made some form of public oath but none used the original Hippocratic Oath. A modified form or an oath unique to that school is often used.
They don’t need to take that oath anymore and haven’t for a long time.
However any medical people participating in executions would have their licences revoked.
There is also legal assisted suicide in Canada and parts of EU. I believe doctors are invilolved in that
I see an argument for that to be an act of compassion, not harm.
Yeah assisted suicide has specific requirements and is very much about compassion. Sort of similar to the way hospice care effectively denies medical intervention that could save someone’s life.
That exists in the US too.
It’s a guy named Vinny who dropped out of phlebotomy class, administering the frostbitten drugs kept in the back of the break room fridge in Snapple bottles, labeled “do NOt drINk”
The Hippocratic oath isn’t in any way binding or insurance companies would never be able to hire in house doctors.
they arnt risking thier licenses, or livelyhood too,.