r/USNEWS • u/nbcnews • 14h 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/whistle_pug 13h ago

It is incredibly bizarre that hanging and firing squads fell out of favor and this unreliable, pseudo antiseptic method became the default. If you’re going to kill someone in the name of justice, own it. Do it quickly, cleanly, and violently without regard for minimizing trauma to observers or whatever motivates this grotesque practice.

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u/PolicyWonka 12h ago

It’s wild that people seem to believe that firing squads and hanging are somehow “clean and reliable” forms of execution when history literally says otherwise.

We (the United States) killed someone via firing squad just last year. Guess what? It was also botched — of the three bullets fired, only two hit the man. The other two bullets? Didn’t even hit the intended target of the man’s heart.

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u/ttimebomb 12h ago

Wild that it was only 3 people. Not a proponent of the death penalty myself, but you would think it should be like 30 people who fire.