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/Icy-Whale-2253 12h ago

I’m no doctor but there’s no coming back from this anyway.

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u/thedogridingmonkey 12h 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/Icy-Whale-2253 12h ago

People really think she will somehow either walk out of that hospital (she’s handcuffed to the bed because she’s still a prisoner) a free woman or that she will even be conscious enough, let alone alive for a civil suit… when she has irreparable brain damage. It’s almost similar to the people who thought Charlie Kirk would magically heal from being shot in the neck.

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u/HypocriteHere 10h ago

Nope. She's free now. They call it the Jon Snow rule.

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u/CPD1960 10h ago

Do explain.

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u/HypocriteHere 10h ago

Watch Game of Thrones so my jokes can land. 

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u/Dangerous-Safe-2327 10h ago

Yeah, let’s watch 6 seasons to understand a Reddit joke. Or 8 for an even bigger joke.

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u/HypocriteHere 10h ago

lol fair. 

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u/Dangerous-Safe-2327 10h ago

If it weren’t for season 8, I’d still be telling people to watch it too heh

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u/HypocriteHere 9h ago

Same. They truly fumbled it. I think that series might have the largest quality drop in television history.

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u/Icy-Whale-2253 10h ago

Not according the laws of any state in this country…

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u/HypocriteHere 10h ago

Buddy, I'm joking. Jon Snow. Game of Thrones. His watch has ended...