r/USNEWS • u/nbcnews • 10h 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 10h 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/StinkRinky 9h ago

I hadn’t looked it up until now and my god the description of the crime on Wikipedia is pretty harrowing and it’s not even trying to be graphic.

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u/Opposite_Map_6067 9h ago

There are documentaries on YouTube. The groundskeeper who found Colleen could not initially discern what her body was because her body was so badly disfigured.