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“The legal and medical issues in the Christa Pike case are on a collision course,” writes bioethicist M. Sara Rosenthal.
Americans like to keep their deaths tucked away and medicalized so we can fool ourselves that the Grim Reaper is rather kind. As long as we do not confront certain brutal realities, we can keep imagining that death looks like the peaceful portrayals in television and movies, where patients apparently suffering from…
After the 50-year-old regained consciousness, Tennessee's governor halted executions and its prison chief resigned; experts suspect the drug never entered her bloodstream properly, while a second attempt could face Eighth Amendment challenges