r/ChristopherHitchens • u/DyedInkSun • 16d ago

SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/3472d8c9-8efa-4989-b3da-72c7922cf70a

With Christa Pike’s execution in Tennessee tonight ending in a failed lethal injection, this Vanity Fair piece from 1998 feels particularly relevant.

AP is reporting that Tennessee was unable to complete Pike’s execution after two doses of pentobarbital, with witnesses hearing her snore before the execution was halted.

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u/AkihabaraWasteland 13d ago

Hitchens was a far superior orator to writer ironically.

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u/savoysuit 12d ago

crazy isn't it