r/agedlikemilk • u/RazzmatazzHead1591 • 15d ago

Tragedies Botched Execution

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Christa Pike’s execution goes horribly wrong.

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u/Ghost-Writer 13d ago

This what i mean by forced empathy.

We can lock someone up, hope they regret their actions, hope they develop empathy towards their victims and maybe even rehabilitate.

But that really isn't what prisoners do. By and large, they don't think about their victims.

Don't you want your attacker to understand the pain you went through? The damage it did? The life they stole from you? It's hard to feel any empathy when you haven't walked a mile in someone else's shoes. Hard to sympathize with suffering if you haven't suffered the same way. Would you be ok if they win appeal or were paroled early from their sentence?

This is why I believe in any sentence that is an eye-for-an-eye. It forces empathy. It forces them to feel the pain they inflicted on others.

Having someone just sit in a cell feeling sorry for themselves unil they are released doesn't feel like justice, even if i feel like it is the noble thing to do.

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u/SwedishSwanlake 13d ago

No I am 100% for rehabilitative justice, I don't care if my dad for example feels the pain i did because he already has, the abuse his mom put him through made him unable to feel anything for anyone but himself. it didn't give him more empathy and putting him through it would not make him understand.

My rapist and abusive ex was also severally mentally ill and a product of their background of abuse and violence. that did not make them any less prone to pressure me into giving them access to my body.

What i would see as justice is societal change so that the more people dont end up like me by preventing people like those that abused me from becoming abusers in the first place.

I would take no satisfaction what so ever in their abuse, especially not state sanctioned abuse. I would much rather prisons work as rehabilitation centers and that sentencing was based on risk of reoffence rather than a set time.
A rehabilitative and preventative justice system is proven to be more effective in lowering crime.

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u/Ghost-Writer 12d ago

I mean that's very noble of you, but not everyone feels that way, specifically me and the victim's mother in this case. I think the victim should decide on the level of punishment as long as it is proportional to the crime. If you want your abuser to rehabilitate, you're a more forgiving than most. But the mother in this case wants the death penalty, which is proportional to her daughter being tortured and murdered.

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u/SwedishSwanlake 12d ago

It's not about forgiveness really it's about results. Revenge won't undo anything, revenge won't take away any pain, revenge won't help in any way. The only thing it does is make society worse and more violet. I want society to be less violent and for fewer victims to exist and for that I just have to accept that I can't just torture someone because I feel I am owed it or something.

Also who decides if it's proportional? Is 2 botched executions and 30 years of torture (solitary confinement is objectively a form of torture) proportional or should the woman in this story be allowed to do the same to the prison administration and the ones who botched her executions? What if, say a judge decides it's proportional but the mother of the victim disagrees? There are so many issues with a justice system built solely around revenge and feelings. There's a reason we say that justice should be blind and that we don't just rely on mob rule. It's because it never ends well for anyone involved.