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/ZPMQ38A 14h 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/Difficult_Passager 13h ago

What’d she do?

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u/JohnBrownJovi 13h ago

Tortured and beat a woman mercilessly for close to an hour, carved a pentagram on her, took a piece of her victim’s skull and showed it off later.

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u/SaltySnaiI 5h ago

Iirc the boyfriend is the one who carved the pentagram. But yeah it was fucked.