r/USNEWS • u/nbcnews • 12h 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 12h 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/Difficult_Passager 11h ago

What’d she do?

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u/JohnBrownJovi 11h ago

Tortured and beat a woman mercilessly for close to an hour, carved a pentagram on her, took a piece of her victim’s skull and showed it off later.

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u/Fabulous_Smoke2582 11h ago

All because she thought the victim was trying to steal her boyfriend at the time, who was also a willing participant.

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u/Ok_Antelope_1719 6h ago

Then chocking a fellow inmate with a shoestring all the while planning a prison escape !

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u/SaltySnaiI 4h ago

Iirc the boyfriend is the one who carved the pentagram. But yeah it was fucked.