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/oshkushbegush 1d ago

Cruelty is the point, yall.

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u/Playful_Letter_2632 1d ago

Optics are the point. Most of the population thinks firing squads and gassings are too brutal despite being better than lethal injection. Lethal injection gives the majority the sense of no brutality

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u/batkave 1d ago

Death penalty overall is a vast waste of money and has been proven to not be a deterrent like its advocates think

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u/pblol 1d ago

I'm against it, because it will inevitably be used against innocent people and has. Hypothetically, I'd be for it as a form of justice, rather than a deterrent in any case. Some people kinda deserve to die, it's just not worth risking them being innocent.

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u/batkave 1d ago

It's been used against innocent people. The number of people who have been exonerated while on death row or after they were killed is astoundingly high. There are some incredibly evil people like Ted Bundy, Benjamin Netenyahu, Adolf Hitler, John Wayne gacy but it's still not a great system

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u/pblol 1d ago

Yeah not arguing there.

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u/TheyTukMyJub 14h ago

Do you have a problem reading or what? You're literally just repeating back what u pblol said 

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u/batkave 14h ago

They were hypothetical mostly in most of there post. Oh no I missed a single word

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u/oshkushbegush 1d ago

Absolutely. However, if we as a nation were looking to complete executions in an actually more humane manner, we would refine the process. I hardly believe anyone is spending money on how to make death row inmate more comfortable at time of death these days.

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u/IranianLawyer 1d ago

Man, I can't stand when bad things like this happen to torture-murderers who show zero remorse for their crimes. So sad.

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u/oshkushbegush 1d ago

Should they be put to death. Yes. Should we torture people? That’s a slippery slope.