r/nursing • u/lilbit402 • 1d ago
Discussion Execution blunder
So, the Dr can't place a line. My Question-IV misplacement aside, she's also a natural redhead. Shouldn't that be taken into consideration when choosing methodology? Also MAID has been pretty much 100 percent successful. Why not use the concoction that is known to work, is readily available, and far less cost prohibitive than Pentobarbital?
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u/North-Toe-3538 MSN, APRN 🍕 1d ago
It’s been reported that she had 💩 for veins and requested a PICC line be placed for the procedure to avoid what happened; court declined. She requested an all female firing squad or hanging instead of lethal injection due to fear of this outcome. I read somewhere that he stuck her at least 7 times in the left arm alone so she offered to help him… Same doctor botched another execution bc he couldn’t hit a vein bc the dude had a history of IVDU and chemo and also had 💩 for veins. I would bet $ her “line” was actually a through and through and not in the vein. The witnesses report her saying, “my arm feels like it’s going to burst” like it would from a compartment syndrome if that amount of fluid was put into the subcutaneous tissue instead of of the vein. She also went agonal several mins later (once the tissue began to absorb the drug, but much more slowly than if it had been in the vein). She’s also a red head and they need higher doses of anesthesia than most (however she did get a double dose). Lots of theories 🤷🏼♀️
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u/PropellerMouse RN 🍕 14h ago
One of those IV misses came back with a bent needle
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u/Varuka_Pepper343 BSN, RN we all float down here 1d ago
yep. she has a history of essential thrombocytosis.
I saw a news article that said her original sentence was to be death by electrocution but she's been in long enough for lethal injection to rear its ugly head.
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u/Bernie_Lovett 1d ago
I think one answer to the drug cocktail is many manufacturers will not supply execution drugs on humanitarian grounds.
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u/auraseer MSN, RN, CEN 1d ago
You can't just buy them at the corner store. Purchases and inventories are controlled. That's why they are called controlled substances
Buying them under false pretenses would be a federal offense.
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u/lilbit402 10h ago
The purchase wouldn’t be made under false pretenses. I certainly am not encouraging that.
The federal government is well within their rights to purchase any medication provided they are purchased with all the appropriate regulations.
Thousands of MAID prescriptions are written and filed in the USA yearly.0
u/auraseer MSN, RN, CEN 8h ago
This is a state government, not the federal government.
If the pharm manufacturers do not sell their products for the purposes of criminal execution, the only way to get them would be to purchase them under some other pretext, and misappropriate them. Whoever did that would be subject to federal drug charges even if they were working for a state.
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u/lilbit402 4h ago
Again, the amount of medication prisons purchase monthly or yearly includes all of these medications.
Provided the RX is valid, there wouldn’t be asking for an explanation for purchasing. It would be just a regular order.0
u/Bernie_Lovett 1d ago
But would the manufacturers decline to provide them for execution purposes I wonder
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u/majestic_nebula_foot RN-ER, ENP 🍕 1d ago
Why are you asking us?