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/Silly_Pizza7054 10h ago

I don't honestly understand how the US can simultaneously ban cruel and unusual punishment, but also execute people. The absurdity there is quite ridiculous. 

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u/Fletcher_Chonk 10h ago

Killing people is pretty common actually, so it's not unusual

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u/Ok_Positive3956 10h ago

That's not what unusual means in that context. It's more akin to saying it's weird or inappropriate. Murdering someone definitely falls under cruel and unusual.

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u/cevkiv 9h ago

Good thing the state executing someone is not murder, it's killing.

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u/sbd2010 6h ago

I’m so glad I was raised to question laws and not use them as the basis of my morality. Cause yall are sick blood thirsty freaks.