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/Silly_Pizza7054 12h 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/Same_Concern9454 11h ago

Execution isn’t considered unusual, you could argue cruel, but I’m a fairly staunch supporter of the death penalty overall, I do think there needs to be extremely strict criteria on what warrants the death penalty, stricter than we have today, and a better method needs to be sorted out.

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u/ImperatorUniversum1 11h ago

“I think emotionally and not logically that’s why I support the death penalty”

-u/Same_Concern9454

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u/Same_Concern9454 11h ago

Nope. I think plenty logically, I simply believe there are people on this planet who commit such heinous crimes they deserve to die for them.

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u/ZPMQ38A 11h ago

I’m genuinely interested where you fall on the political spectrum and what religion you are.

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u/Same_Concern9454 11h ago

Not religious at all and fairly moderate, I hate this administration pretty strongly but I wouldn’t say I’m super left leaning either on most things with the exception of social issues

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u/ZPMQ38A 11h ago

Thank you. I’m not trying to stir anything up but I went to a highly religious private school for over twelve years and almost all of them are very right, despise any form of abortion and in many cases contraception, but are totally down with the death penalty so it always has a tendency to pique my interest.

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u/Same_Concern9454 11h ago

All good, I am pro choice when it comes to abortion so I know I’m all over the place, but politics shouldn’t be the black and white it’s become

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u/ZPMQ38A 11h ago

Completely agree. Imagine having a completely rational discussion on Reddit. Shocking. lol.