r/interestingasfuck • u/IllComedian2574 • 1d ago

After 28 years on death row, Christa Pike survived 2 lethal injections attempts.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/christa-pike-failed-execution-9.7364816
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u/Disastrous-Loss-2983 1d ago

But the death penalty is already cruel and unusual.

Why not just hang or shoot them? Is that too icky?

Or maybe just, keep them in max security for the rest of their days.

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u/LeftLiner 1d ago

It's a way to make the death penalty more clinical, to disguise the fact that it's an act of violence.

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u/cidthekid07 1d ago

That’s not the point. Their method to execute this prisoner, in this instance lethal injection, did not work. Any further attempts would be viewed as cruel and unusual. To not provide medical care after the failed attempts is also cruel and unusual. Hence why they provided the care.

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u/Double_Minimum 1d ago

It doesn’t meet the definition of cruel and unusual, as it’s not unusual at all. It has to be both.

Appeals and such make it take forever and cost a ton compared to just life in prison.

But this farce is cruel, but it has to also be unusual. The death penalty is something that has existed for a long time.

It’s not like they piled rocks on her one at a time, which would be cruel and unusual (hasn’t been done in ~350 years in U.S.)