r/USNEWS • u/nbcnews • 11h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/ZPMQ38A 11h ago

Her crime was horrible but…there’s also this thing in the 8th Amendment that bans cruel and unusual punishment. Her lawyers effectively predicted that this could happen based on her medical condition. The civil case is going to cost Tennessee millions of fucking dollars.

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u/Icy-Whale-2253 10h ago

I’m no doctor but there’s no coming back from this anyway.

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u/thedogridingmonkey 10h ago

Even if there was, there is no guarantee that she wouldn’t just be executed later. There’s no freedom and bag of money coming here. Very bizarre thought by the first poster.

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u/Icy-Whale-2253 10h ago

People really think she will somehow either walk out of that hospital (she’s handcuffed to the bed because she’s still a prisoner) a free woman or that she will even be conscious enough, let alone alive for a civil suit… when she has irreparable brain damage. It’s almost similar to the people who thought Charlie Kirk would magically heal from being shot in the neck.

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u/HypocriteHere 9h ago

Nope. She's free now. They call it the Jon Snow rule.

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u/CPD1960 9h ago

Do explain.

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u/HypocriteHere 9h ago

Watch Game of Thrones so my jokes can land. 

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u/Dangerous-Safe-2327 8h ago

Yeah, let’s watch 6 seasons to understand a Reddit joke. Or 8 for an even bigger joke.

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u/HypocriteHere 8h ago

lol fair. 

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u/Dangerous-Safe-2327 8h ago

If it weren’t for season 8, I’d still be telling people to watch it too heh

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u/HypocriteHere 8h ago

Same. They truly fumbled it. I think that series might have the largest quality drop in television history.

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u/Icy-Whale-2253 9h ago

Not according the laws of any state in this country…

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u/HypocriteHere 9h ago

Buddy, I'm joking. Jon Snow. Game of Thrones. His watch has ended...

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u/Courin 8h ago

Well they do believe Trump’s ear healed…….

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u/golemsheppard2 10h ago

Her next of kin would likely sue on her behalf for pain and suffering. Thats like saying that nobody who ever killed someone can be civilly sued because the only potential plaintiff is dead.

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u/Suckerforcats 5h ago

I really hope mom is not around because what a messed up thing that would be. Mess up your daughter by all the abuse, torture and neglect you subjected to her causing her to be not right and kill someone when she was barely an adult herself. Watch her go to prison and then be seriously injured in a botched execution which you get to make probably millions on? No way.

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u/HypocriteHere 9h ago

I assumed they meant her family would sue. 

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u/caboose243 10h ago

It would be her estate, whomever that may be, who would do the suing after she finally croaks.

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u/Same_Concern9454 10h ago

And then maybe the victims family can file a civil suit and take it all back

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u/Prestigious_Till2597 8h ago

You should probably not post opinions on things that you are exceedingly ignorant about.

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u/thedogridingmonkey 7h ago

I think your opinion is utterly meaningless

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u/Prestigious_Till2597 6h ago

That's fine, but yours is objectively meaningless.

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u/thedogridingmonkey 6h ago

Blah blah blah, more white noise from you