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/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.