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Cash deals in parking lots for execution drugs from shady compounding pharmacies
Legal formalism > the 6th Amendment and doing justice.
"Innocence isn't enough" even though AZ lowered the standard to permit the appointment of an unqualified lawyer in a capital case and at least three courts found the medical testimony faulty.
The death penalty and abortion.
Red team still has no definition of a human life.
"You are not a human life anymore. You forfeit that designation because we feels angry at you. Thats the law now. "
So being innocent of a crime for which you have been convicted doesn't matter to you?
Must've done sumthin
Prove the other something beyond a reasonable doubt.
Or does that not matter to you either?
indictment = guilt, interesting take
tough luck if the police or the DA get tunnel vision
Being in the wrong place wrong time for some
activist judges tbh.
Alabama botches another execution
Yeesh. No way to just do 2- 3 bullets to the head and/or chest? It's the chosen death penalty method for castle doctrine and good guys with guns heroes
you're not supposed to attribute to malice what can readily be put down to incompetence, but there's no reason why the former can't motivate the latter.
the botch is a selling point to sadists
formalism >justice
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/25/g-s1-...-death-penaltyThe Trump administration announced Friday that it will authorize firing squads as a federally permitted method of execution, deepening its push to revive the death penalty — underscoring a sharp divide with Pope Leo XIV and recent Catholic teaching. Hours after the Justice Department made its announcement, the pontiff condemned the death penalty as an attack on human dignity.
6CA stayed Christa Pike's execution, SCOTUS vacated the stay without giving any reason for it, so the execution went ahead
Tennessee has administered execution drugs twice, but Christa Pike is still alive. Pike's attorneys are requesting a stay and medical treatment for Pike.
Tennessee botched another execution back in May, hard to see how this procedure is distinguishable from torture.
Last edited by Winehole23; 09-30-2026 at 10:47 PM.
Pike is in the hospital now
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8r6rjdvlx6o
https://apnews.com/article/christa-p...7695ecb16afbdfOfficials appeared to give Pike two doses of pentobarbital.
At 7:46 p.m. prison officials closed the curtain to the media room. They raised the curtain three minutes later. Pike could be heard loudly snoring, and the curtain was closed again at 8:06 pm.
Pike continued to be heard snoring behind the closed curtain until the microphone was cut off at about 8:53 p.m. At that time there was an announcement to escort media witnesses out of the area.
Tennessee Department of Correction spokesman Dorinda Carter told media witnesses she was unable to immediately provide information about what happened.
Emergency vehicles were seen coming and going from the prison.
it probably wasn't snoring
https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/...onal-breathing
Last edited by Winehole23; 09-30-2026 at 11:17 PM.
In the Tony Von Carruthers botched execution, the physician cut Carruthers' hands, feet, neck and chest (twice), failing to insert an IV tube for the execution drugs.
his execution was stayed for a year
https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/05...na-executions/In advance of Carruthers’ execution attempt, the state declined to say whether it planned to use expired drugs, according to Thomas.Even worse, the execution physician admitted in a deposition that he had placed a central IV only a few times more than a decade ago and “experienced complications” in one procedure, Thomas said.
Yet the state continued to pay him to serve as physician for Carruthers’ execution, she said.
DeLiberato described the “clink, clink, clink” of different needles hitting a tray beside Carruthers’ gurney where he lay for roughly an hour and a half, going through “agony” before the warden called off the execution.
No telephone was in the chamber, and she had to be escorted outside to use a phone, which hadn’t been plugged in, something she called “inexcusable.”
When she returned to the room, DeLiberato said she objected to the doctor putting in the other line, claiming he wasn’t qualified. She said he snapped back, “I am too qualified,” before the warden told him to proceed and ordered her to let him work.
The main physician then asked if anyone on the medical team was qualified to access the jugular vein in his neck, which also failed. Next, the same doctor asked if anyone knew whether Carruthers was allergic to lidocaine. They even asked the inmate if he knew, and he told them he didn’t think he was, according to DeLiberato.
After she used the phone again to alert attorneys about the other problems, the physician used a scalpel to cut into Carruthers’ chest, twice, causing him to bleed and moan in pain.
“Tony is in agony, he’s in unimaginable distress,” she said.
At last, the chamber phone rang, the warden answered it, had a short conversation and hung up before calling it off.
Justice Blackmun clocked it 30 years ago
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/ht...A1.html#FNSRC1
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