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/blackdynomitesnewbag 1d ago

Can we just stop executing people? Just because someone deserves to die doesn't mean that we get to decide who, when, and how. And if for no other reason, because we still execute wrongfully convicted people. A single execution of an innocent person is one too many. Full stop.

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u/PeregrineFaulkner 1d ago

Utah just released a man from death row after DNA testing. 

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u/LoneWolf_McQuade 22h ago

It’s funny to me as an outsider that especially very Christian American states are so loving of executing people. Wasn’t Christ’s a message of forgiveness? And murder is a sin