So far, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has not responded to repeated calls from Pike's attorneys and death penalty observers to commute her sentence from the death penalty to life in prison.
The problem with lethal injections is they use untrained or low trained prison guards to do the injections. If board certified anesthesiologists were doing it, it would be much more painless, and complications could be handled and responded to.
Anesthesiologists don’t become executioners because they all swore to the Hippocratic oath.
The problem with lethal injections is they use untrained or low trained prison guards to do the injections. If board certified anesthesiologists were doing it, it would be much more painless, and complications could be handled and responded to.
Anesthesiologists don’t become executioners because they all swore to the Hippocratic oath.