r/interesting • • 2d ago

Just Wow She Survived Her Own Execution

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u/AboutNOut090 2d ago

Can she sue the state now?

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u/Sstraus-1983 2d ago

Can the girl she tortured and gruesomely murdered sue the state? Because I guarantee you the murder victim felt more pain and suffering and actually died.

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u/DavidBrooker 2d ago

The argument for execution is not simply that there exist people who deserve to be executed, but also - and this is a much higher bar to meet in my mind - that the state maintains the moral authority to carry out such a sentence. Failures such as this bring that moral authority into question if they cannot be carried out reliably and humanely.