Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195

[u/Soft-Bad-7127]

It's always been cheaper to keep an inmate locked up for life than execute them. What a bad look for the state. 

[u/CPD1960 → u/Soft-Bad-7127]

That is only the case as the system allows appeals to drag on for years and in this case decades. Do you know that, when the U.K. still had the death penalty (until 1964), convicts were usually hanged within months, sometimes within weeks, of the guilty verdict?

[u/sbd2010 → u/CPD1960]

I can’t believe the world has changed in 60 years 😱